(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Jordan and Italy organized an event in New York dedicated to protect cultural heritage from terrorist and organized crime groups.
Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, said this event doesn't involve the human heritage of a certain country, but dedicated for all mankind, stressing the need to work together to criminalize attacks on cultural heritage.
"The terrorist Daesh gang and other terrorist groups have increasingly targeted all elements of cultural heritage in the region, regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds," Judeh said, adding that "terrorism targets us all." "These groups' goal is to spread evil and control through fear," the minister noted, pointing out that "this involves erasing cultural heritage which unites us all in the Middle East and around the world." Jordan and Italy are determined to work together in the near future to create Jerash Regional Centre for monuments and cultural property's restoration, Judeh announced, describing it as "the first training center of its kind in the region, which will teach and train experts on works of art restoration." Jerash is situated in the north of Jordan and is now generally acknowledged to be one of the best-preserved Roman provincial towns in the world.
Judeh pointed to the unprecedented large-scale looting and destruction of monuments and cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq, describing it as a "cultural cleansing." UNESCO Director-General, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Interpol and a number of member states, took part in the event.
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