I am talking to UNESCO as if North U was first protected by national laws.

 

On November 20th, 2021, while witnessing a Rakhine traditional Shinlong parade in North Oo, Rakhine State.

After Burma submitted a proposal for the city of North Oo in Rakhine State to be officially recognized as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, Experts have said that UNESCO officials are delaying their visit. When RFA contacted the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, before declaring an ancient heritage site as a UNESCO World Heritage, the national law, He replied that it is necessary to first protect with regulations.

Designating an ancient heritage site as a UNESCO World Heritage Site gives it the highest level of protection at the international level.

If an ancient heritage site is in danger of being damaged by natural or man-made disasters due to lack of maintenance and supervision, the relevant authorities need to protect it first through national laws, UNESCO's media officer Thomas Mollet said in an email to RFA.

In September 2019, France submitted a draft proposal to include the city of North Oo in Rakhine State in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. It was imported to the UNESCO World Heritage Center in Paris.

After that, the final proposal was submitted in December 2021 after hiring experts from abroad to inspect the field.

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The civil government, the civil government, to put the city of North Oo, founded by King Min Sawmon of Arakan in the 15th century AD, on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Civil society organizations and heritage experts have been trying since 2017.

In the city of North Oo, there are ancient stupas built by successive Rakhine kings. The stone carvings and the city walls built for military strategy in ancient times. moat 27 ancient heritage sites such as forts and palace mounds have been proposed to be designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

However, up until now, it has been difficult to get listed on the World Heritage List, and over time, the heritage has been damaged, said Daw Khin Than, chairman of the North U Regional Cultural Heritage Preservation Group, which is trying to get it listed on the UNESCO list.

“We see a lot of difficulties. We no longer have the rods we had in 2017. The mountains that were there in 2017 are now half gone, and the mountains are being demolished and dug up. The next thing is to dig out the mountains and make moats. Houses were also built in those moats, so the scenes in 2017 are no longer in 2023. So when we posted the world cultural heritage, the pictures are very different from now. Therefore, when the heads of the World Cultural Heritage Organization come to inspect, we don't know how to solve it."

In 2023, a place in North U, Rakhine State When we met on July 27th.

In an email to RFA from UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the submission of a proposal to the World Heritage Center is only the first of many steps to formally designate a site as a World Heritage Site. It is stated that there is no guarantee that the proposed site will be visited by the World Heritage Committee.

RFA also asked whether UNESCO is delaying cooperation with the military council because it is uncertain whether the UN will recognize the military council that seized power as Myanmar's official government, but UNESCO officials did not respond.