22.07.2021 – 13:08
Liverpool, in the United Kingdom, decided not to have World Heritage status anymore. This, as a representative group of the United Nations found that, developments or innovations, really threaten, directly, historical values./Konica.al
The decision was taken after a secret ballot by the UNESCO committee, during a meeting in China.
UNESCO – the United Nations agency for culture, education and science – said the new developments, including the newly planned stadium of the Everton football club, had resulted in a “major deterioration” of the historic part of the city.
The mayor said the decision was “incomprehensible”.
“The city’s World Heritage Site has never been better off,” said Joanne Anderson.
She said she would talk to the British government to see if the UNESCO decision could be appealed, which she said came “a decade after UNESCO last visited Liverpool”.
The government said it was “extremely disappointed”, but believed that Liverpool still deserved World Heritage status, “given the important role that the city’s heritage and history have always played”.
Liverpool was added to the World Heritage List in 2004. It is the third country to lose this important status in the history of the ranking of cultural sites and values in 1978.
The Arab shrine “Oryx” in Oman, also has the status in 2007, while the valley “Dresden Elbe” in Germany, in 2009.
