News from Krakow that the Kotor fortress will be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, made the first resident of Kotor happy, but at the same time it was a warning.
"Today's news and decision further oblige both the city of Kotor and the whole of Montenegro to pay extra attention and make every extra effort to treat this area with as much consideration as possible and to improve it in such a way that it remains part of the world's cultural heritage ", said the President of Kotor Municipality, Vladimir Jokić.
What was missing in the previous period was precisely consideration. Due to excessive construction in the area of Kotor, its status on the World Heritage List was questionable. And in the coming period, as announced by the Ministry of Culture, UNESCO will monitor how we treat this world heritage. The UNESCO Committee therefore recommended the adoption of the Heritage Impact Assessment.
"It was especially recommended that the boundaries of the protected environment be revised and changed so as to include a part of the sea, in order to improve the further valorization of the cultural property. It was specifically requested to continue efforts to solve the problem of urban development in Kotor, which needs to be treated separately through Heritage Impact Assessments," the Ministry of Culture announced.
The president of the municipality of Kotor also announces the determination of responsibility for the actions due to which this city is still under the watchful eye of UNECO.
"Because of all this, I believe that it is absolutely necessary to establish the responsibility of those who brought this space to this position, that this should be the starting point, and then that all those people who really care about the preservation of this space in their hearts and souls make all possible efforts to make the right decisions and the right guidelines on how to preserve this space", said Jokić.
It is possible that in addition to Kotor, the Forte Mare fortress in Herceg Novi will be on the World Heritage List. The Ministry of Culture announced that the UNESCO Committee considers it necessary to carry out appropriate studies and implement conservation measures.
In addition to Herceg Novi, Montenegro also applied for Ulcinj for the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, the findings of experts from that organization indicate that the Venetian layer in Ulcinj has not been preserved to the required extent, and that therefore its authenticity cannot be confirmed.
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