UNESCO Fails to Protect World Heritage at Cradle of Mankind
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends,
Please find attached the PRESS RELEASE, virus-free and signed by more
than 20 INTERNATIONAL NGOs addressing the outrageous decision made by
the World Heritage Committee (WHC) of UNESCO to accept the boundary
change of the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania - affecting the World
Heritage Site and
paving the way for the dangerous and detrimental
Uranium mining development.
PLEASE report to your viewers, listeners, readers and spread the
information of the Press Release as widely as possible.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Yours
Gunter Wippel
www.uranium-network.orgNote to Editors:
For your article you also might want to contact the people responsible
for the decision made by the UNESCO WHC as well as the people of the
Russian/Canadian conglomerate, who must be held responsible for any
damages to people and nature, if they go ahead.
UNESCO Members --- Meeting St. Petersburg 2012
Actual members of the World Heritage Comittee:
Algeria, Cambodia, Colombia, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany,
India, Iraq, Japan, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Qatar, Russian Federation,
Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab
Emirates
more information,
links to National Committees:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/comittee/#membersThe following names were compiled by ourselves – however it has to be
seen that delegates to that ill-fated St. Petersburg meeting were not
only the listed „professionals“ but also politicians – for the case of
Germany we were told that Mrs Cornelia Pieper, „Staatsministerin im
Auswärtigen Amt“ went to St. Petersburg. For other state parties
please enquire who was at this decision making meeting as their
government representative.
For Germany:
Permanent Delegation to UNESCO
H. E. Mrs Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (24/07/2009)
Permanent Delegation of Germany to UNESCO
13-15 avenue Franklin Roosevelt
75008
PARIS
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01.53.83.46.63
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unesco-delegations.orgNational Commission for UNESCO
President: Mr Walter Hirche
Vice-President: Mrs Verena Metze-Mangold
2nd Vice-President: Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf
Secretary-General: Mr Roland Bernecker
German Commission for UNESCO
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For Russia:
Russian Federation
Permanent Delegation to UNESCO
H. E. Mrs Eleonora Mitrofanova
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (05/03/2009)
Contact
Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to UNESCO
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unesco-delegations.orgWeb site
http://www.unesco.mid.ruNational Commission for UNESCO
President: Mr Sergei Lavrov*
Vice-Chairperson: Mr Vladimir E. Fortov
Second Vice-Chairperson: Mr Alexander Dzasokhov
Secretary-General: Mr Grigory Ordzhonikidze
Deputy Secretary-General: Mr Amir Bilyalitdinov
Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 32/ 34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya Sq. RU - 121200
Moscow, G-200 Russian Federation
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(7.499 ) 244 24 56 ; (7.499) 244 24 65; (7.499) 244 25 36; (7.499) 244 23 29
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ECOTERRA Intl. remarks:
The
Selous is the world's largest wildlife preserve and the Uranium
mining there certainly would also affect the economically vital
eco-tourism sector of Tanzania as well as the adjacent ecosystems of
Mozambique, since an important wildlife corridor connects the wildlife
habitats of these two countries. Like in Congo the resource-hungry
conglomerates of mining companies and foreign government interests,
destroy people and nature now also in Tanzania.
The permission given by UNESCO to alter the boundaries of the Selous
as protected large ecosystem in Tanzania is a stab right into the
heart of wildlife and nature protection as well as human and
indigenous peoples' rights efforts in East Africa, the cradle of
mankind.
Like the WWF has become the green-washing lobby for detrimental
industries and the IUCN has become the fig-leaf provider for voracious
governments, UNESCO and its WHC have turned against their
own
establishing principles and therefore can no longer be seen as the
true and honest guardians of the natural World Heritage.
Media requests can also be sent to
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