JOINT STATEMENT BY FRANCE ITALY, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UK & USA

TRUCE IN LYBIA FOR AID AL ADHA

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 08/17/2019, 00:59 Time

USPA NEWS - The governments of France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States of America welcome the announcement of a truce in Libya on the occasion of Eid el-Adha in response to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General with the support of the Security Council (UNSC press statement on Libya of 11 August), and invite all parties to effectively cease hostilities across Libya. We stand ready to assist the UN Mission in monitoring the observance of the truce and address any attempt to break it.  As proposed by the SRSG and reaffirmed today by the Security Council,  this truce should be accompanied by confidence-building measures between the parties that can pave the way for a sustainable cease-fire and a return to a constructive, inclusive dialogue. 

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UNESCO Director-General to focus on heritage & culture during 1st official visit

to Uzbekistan on 26 and 27 August

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 08/16/2019, 16:57 Time

USPA NEWS - Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of UNESCO, will undertake an official visit to Uzbekistan to take part in the International Conference on the Preservation of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage, alongside Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, on 26 August. A significant number of culture and tourism ministers from across the region and beyond are also expected to participate. At a time when increasing mass tourism, urbanization and environmental crises are placing added pressures on many sites, the Director-General will underline the critical role for all countries in safeguarding the world’s cultural heritage, based upon the World Heritage Convention, the most important global instrument for the protection of tangible heritage. She will also emphasize the need to better integrate existing tools for all forms of heritage, including intangible, natural and documentary heritage.

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