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Strasbourg – The examination of the French-Belgian candidacy for the inscription of the burial sites and memorials of the Great War to Unesco World Heritage has been postponed to 2021, the press conference said on Sunday. 'Association "Landscapes and memorial sites of the Great War".
" The examination is postponed to 2021. This postponement is not due to a problem of our file, it is a question of theme, because the theme is new memorial ," said to AFP Marie-Madeleine Damien, general secretary of the badociation, present in Bahrain, where is currently meeting the World Heritage Committee of Unesco.
" This does not question the interest of the record ," she insisted.
This UNESCO World Heritage nomination concerns 139 military cemeteries, necropolises and memorials in Belgium and France, including the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, the Vimy Canadian Memorial (Pas-de-Calais ), the necropolis of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (Pas-de-Calais) or the sites of the Battle of Verdun.
Following this decision of the Unesco, Simon Wiesenthal center of fight against anti-semitism and racism emphasized Sunday in a statement, " to fear that in the cemeteries, which also served as fields during the Second World War, Nazi murderers may be honored in common cemeteries with Allied units or there may be memorials, which currently serve as places of worship for neo-Nazis ".
" The Wiesenthal Center will ensure that no Nazi war criminals are ever among those honored ," he says.
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