How Lithuania would protect its heritage during the war: enhanced protection could be for only one value
As A. Jurgauskaitė observes, it is possible to observe from photos and videos how Ukraine protects not only people but also cultural values: sculptures are covered with sandbags so that they are not destroyed, and important values are taken out of museums so that they are not stolen or destroyed. Of course, there are things we don’t know and don’t see.
And what would be the case in Lithuania? What is worth learning from the Ukrainians? What heritage and how to protect it? Who is responsible for restoring it?
According to the Roerich Pact of 1935, nineteen years later, the UNESCO Convention was established on its basis, which protects not only the UNESCO heritage during armed conflicts. “In principle, the Convention emphasizes that the heritage protected by the entire state through administrative and other legal means, which it recognizes, may be that the sign of the Hague Convention is a blue shield, then it must be protected in accordance with the provisions of the Convention,” notes A. Ūsienė.
She adds another important point in this regard …
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