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08 Mar 2001
UNESCO - Afghan Cultural Heritage Crisis
UNESCO - Bureau of Public Information, Paris, France
Supplied note:
"UNESCO [...] has launched [in Mar 2001] an international petition and
a special emergency fund to safeguard Afghan cultural heritage. We ask
that you give the international e-mail petition ['UNESCO
Petition to Safeguard Afghanistan Cultural Heritage', see the text
in EN, ES, RU, and FR at
(www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/petitione.htm) - ed.] the widest
possible distribution in your country. Sincerely yours, Mounir
Bouchenaki (ADG/CLT) Helene-Marie Gosselin (DIR/OPI)."
Site contents: UNESCO Press Center; International Petition; Emergency
Fund; Photos - Video; Afghan Heritage; About World Heritage; About
UNESCO; The Heritage Portal; Heritage Pavilion.
[On 26 Feb 2001 the Taliban leadership ordered a mass destruction of
pre-Islamic and Buddhist cultural artefacts in Afghanistan - including
the world's largest standing Buddha statue at Bamiyan, AF. The UNESCO's
Afghan Cultural Heritage Crisis site is available in EN, FR, RU and
Arabic - ed.]
URL http://www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/
Link reported by: Caroline Humphrey (ch10001@cam.ac.uk)
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