UNESCO has added 13 new sites to the World Heritage List

The 10th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee is taking place from 25 to 2023 September 45 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). During the conference, representatives of 21 Member States agreed to include 13 new sites on the World Heritage List and extend the recognition of several existing ones. Edition…

Ukrainian borsch recognized as a UNESCO cultural heritage site: 5 best recipes for this dish

Ukrainian borscht was included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection. Ukrayinska Pravda writes about this. This decision was made on July 1 at the 5th extraordinary meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. “Victory in the war for borscht…

Ukraine has submitted an official application for the inclusion of borscht in the UNESCO list of cultural heritage

Borscht, a world-famous beetroot-based soup, may soon be officially recognized as a cultural heritage of Ukraine. This is stated in a press release from Evgeniy Klopotenko. On March 30, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine added borscht to the UNESCO cultural heritage list. “This is an important procedural...

Olivier and the 'Irony of Fate': why Russian New Year traditions were not included in the UNESCO list

UNESCO cannot include in the list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity such Russian New Year's customs as preparing and eating Olivier salad and watching the film "The Irony of Fate" because the Russian Federation refused to approve and ratify the corresponding international convention on such heritage. About…

Ours in the USA: Oksana Dudko - about working with Enrique Iglesias and Scorpions and the plight of world stars

Oksana Dudko, co-founder of FTI Agency, has been in the concert business for 17 years. During this time, she managed to organize performances and tours of the world's leading stars in different countries, to become the creator of the Ukrainian festival, included in the Guinness Book of Records, and to achieve that a rare ...

The USA left UNESCO: than it threatens

The US decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has come into force. Washington owes the organization more than $ 600 million. United States decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), ...

Israel begins exit from UNESCO

Israel plans to begin the procedure for withdrawing from UNESCO after the United States announced the termination of membership in the organization. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote about this on his Facebook page. The head of the Israeli government supported the US decision to withdraw from the organization, ...

United States announced its withdrawal from UNESCO

The United States is withdrawing from UNESCO, the UN specialized agency for education, science and culture, as of December 31, 2018, Voice of America reports, citing the State Department. “This decision was not easy to make. It reflects US concerns about growing debt...

The United States will review relations with UNESCO after the resolution on Hebron

US Ambassador to the UN Nicky Haley said the US will reconsider its partnership with UNESCO after the organization declared the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron's Old City as a Palestinian World Heritage Site. Writes about this The Guardian. United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

Avigdor Lieberman: UNESCO is an anti-Semitic organization

Defense Minister and leader of the Israel Our Home Party Avigdor Lieberman sharply criticized the UNESCO resolution, according to which the Cave of the Forefathers (Mearat ha-Mahpella) and the historical part of Hebron were officially declared "part of the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people." “UNESCO is a politically committed organization that occupies ...

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