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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
18 April 2008
Posted to the web 18 April 2008
Luanda
Members of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) of the United Nations Education, Sciences and Communication Organisation (UNESCO) were sworn Friday, here, in a ceremony chaired by the minister of Culture, Boaventura Cardoso.
The committee, inactive since the "90s, is comprised by the director of the National Institute for Culture Property, Xavier Yambo, historians Emmanuel Esteves, Palmira Tchipilica, Rosa Cruz e Silva and Manuel Sebastião, this last one is Luanda's Provincial Director of Culture.
Also integrating the committee are judges, architects, biologists, monument technicians, anthropologists, engineers, archaeologists and environmentalists.
Speaking to the newly-sworn in officials at the ceremony, Culture Minister considered opportune to re-activate the committee, since the current context demands that an organised civil society and the state organs should join efforts in the combat against the bad effects to the preservation of the cultural and natural property.
"It is known by many that there is great deficiency in the technical and scientific sector, regarding property and that the inherent consequences to the lack of a more acting intervention on behalf of the various players of the property and community, caused in the last years, disastrous consequences countrywide", Boaventura Cardoso stressed.
On his turn, deputy minister of Culture for Research and Property Area, Virgílio Coelho, said that it is one of the main tasks of this committee the fight for the preservation and valuing of the cultural property.
The National Committee exists since 1978, as national supplement of ICOMOS, a non-governmental international organisation, meant for the preservation of the world monuments and sites.
ICOMOS activities were ruled by statutes that were adopted during its fifth Assembly that took place in Moscow, Russia, in May 1978.
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ICOMOS was established in 1965 and counts currently on 107 member countries.
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