“Global cultural heritage is today facing a challenge that we have to consider how we will cope with. We must consider what our vision is for the next 50 years, how we will deal with the threats, and how we react to those that, unfortunately, we know all too well,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted on Thursday in Delphi, during his address to the international conference “The Next 50: The Future of World Heritage in Challenging Times, Enhancing Resilience and Sustainability”.
Mitsotakis warned of the dangers threatening world heritage, including those from natural phenomena, such as the destructive fires that destroyed a part of the region’s ancient olive groves.
“It is known that kings came here to Delphi to get oracles, which did not give clear answers,” he said, stressing that the protection of world heritage in the future needs to be combined with the protection of nature. He noted that for the first time and on a global basis, new institutions were being created that served as the foundation of new organizations and processes that collect know-how on preserving heritage.
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