WATCH announces a Focus Group in Mtskheta

WATCH announces that: The Municipality of Mtskheta (Georgia), in cooperation with the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia will host a Focus Group on March the 25th within the framework of War Free World Heritage Listed Cities, a project co-financed by the European Commission EuropeAid as a part of the ENPI programme CIUDAD.  A thirty months initiative designed within a partnership between the Municipality of Mtskheta (Georgia), the Council of the United Municipalities of Jbail (Lebanon) and the World Association for the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage WATCH (Italy), in association with the Friends of Cultural Heritage Society FOCUH (Turkey) & the Network per il Restauro Avanzato NEREA (Italy) the project focuses on urban and regional planning for cities that are registered in the World Heritage List and located in critical areas being exposed to the threats of conflict. Risk Preparedness Plans and Risk Mitigation measures will be defined for the cities of Byblos in Lebanon and Mtskheta in Georgia to abide with the Guidelines issued in 2009 by UNESCO for the implementation of the Second Protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Properties in times of armed conflicts. More – Issued on 25/03/2011