Ukraine’s Odesa city put on UNESCO list of endangered sites
LA TimesPeople walk in a street as smoke rises after shelling in Odesa, Ukraine, in April. The United Nations’ cultural agency decided Wednesday to add the historic center of Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa to its list of endangered World Heritage sites, recognizing “the outstanding universal value of the site and the duty of all humanity to protect it.” The decision was made at an extraordinary session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in Paris. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on UNESCO in October to put Odesa on its World Heritage List, which recognizes places of “outstanding universal value.” The World Heritage Committee agreed Wednesday while also adding the city’s historic center to its list of endangered sites. “Today, we witnessed the funeral of the World Heritage Convention,” she said, adding that pressure prevailed and scientific objectivity “was shamefully violated.” Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko welcomed the vote’s outcome, saying it would protect Odesa’s multicultural history. She said “precise satellite surveillance” was being used for the first time to monitor Ukraine’s World Heritage sites.
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