Saturday, 25 May 2013

Recommendation to withdraw The World Heritage, Kamakura / Kanagawa

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Recommendation to withdraw The World Heritage, Kamakura / Kanagawa

 

世界遺産、鎌倉が推薦取り下げへ/神奈川

 

[caption id="attachment_4065" align="alignnone" width="400"]DSC_0119 (Kita-Kamakura (North Kamakua). 13 December 2008 (Photo Toshiki Shirose. AFP)[/caption]

 

鎌倉世界遺産登録推進協議会(会長・松尾崇鎌倉市長)は5月24日、市役所で非公開の理事会を開き、文化遺産候補「武家の古都・鎌倉」(鎌倉、横浜、逗子市)の国連教育科学文化機関(ユネスコ)への推薦について、取り下げを希望することで合意した。

 

取り下げの是非について、公式な機関決定は初めて。

 

文化庁の近藤誠一長官は神奈川新聞社のインタビューに「地元の意向を大いに尊重する」と明言しており、取り下げはほぼ確実な見通しとなった。

 

県と3市の首長は27日、記者会見し、地元の方針として正式に表明する。

 

ユネスコの諮問機関である国際記念物遺跡会議(イコモス)は4月、鎌倉を登録しないよう勧告した。

 

6月にカンボジアで開かれる世界遺産委員会で、勧告通り「不登録」と決議された場合、再び推薦はできなくなる。

 

出席した理事によると、日本政府がそのまま世界遺産委員会に諮って評価の格上げを狙うのは、過去の決議の傾向を踏まえるとリスクが大き過ぎると判断した。

 

「次世代が再挑戦する可能性を残すべき」と指摘され、出席した15人の全会一致で取り下げ方針が決まった。

 

(神奈川新聞、2013年5月25日)

 

 

Recommendation to withdraw The World Heritage, Kamakura / Kanagawa

 

May 24, open the board of privately held at City Hall, "the ancient capital Kamakura samurai" cultural The World Heritage candidate (Kamakura, Yokohama, Zushi) Kamakura World Heritage Promotion Council (Chairman Takashi Matsuo Kamakura mayor) of for recommendation United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it was agreed that would like to withdraw.

 

On the pros and cons of withdrawal, official agency decision the first time.

 

Seiichi Kondo, head of The Agency for Cultural Affairs has stated that “Lot of respect for the wishes of the local" in the interview Kanagawa Shimbun, withdrawn became an almost certain prospect.

 

The 27th May, the head of three cities counties and a press conference, is to express formally as local policy.

 

In April, ICOMOS has recommended that they do not register the Kamakura International Council on Monuments and Sites, an advisory of UNESCO.

 

World Heritage Committee to be held in Cambodia in June, when it is resolved that the "non-registration" recommendation street, recommendation will not be again.

 

According to the director who attended, aim at the upgrade of the evaluation Nihon government with consulting the World Heritage Committee as it is, it is determined that the risk is too large given the tendency of the resolution of the past.

 

They had been pointed out as "should leave the possibility that the next generation to re-challenge", withdrawal policy was decided unanimously of 15 people who attended.

 

(Kanagawa Shimbun, 25 May 2013)

(Translated: R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 25 May 2013)

 

 

 

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