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How UNESCO protects Ukrainian heritage

2022-06-24T06:24:51.129Z


INTERVIEW – For four months, Russia has been relentlessly pounding Ukrainian territory and has already damaged 152 sites according to the United Nations body.


Lazare Eloundou Assomo is the director of the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural body.

LE FIGARO.

- According to the UNESCO tally,

152 sites have been damaged since the start of the war in Ukraine

.

How do you identify them?

Lazare ELOUNDOU ASSOMO.

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UNESCO relies on information provided by professionals in the field, as well as on the census of the Ukrainian authorities.

The press then allows us to cross-reference and verify this information.

These are transmitted to UNITA (

the United Nations Institute for Training and Research is the United Nations training body, editor's note

) and analyzed by satellite photos via UNOSAT (

the United Nations satellite center ).

'ONU, Editor

's note ) to obtain the last necessary checks.

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We can then confirm the potential damage done to the sites and their locations.

This evaluation cannot be 100% complete.

She the…

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Source: lefigaro

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