The UNESCO Committee for World Cultural Heritage asks Montenegro to abandon the cable car project Kotor-Tvrđava St. Ivan, and maintain a moratorium on any new construction and development, it was announced after today's 42nd session, where the decision on Kotor was adopted without discussion.
It was announced from the session that the UNESCO Committee for World Cultural Heritage is still concerned because considerable further work is necessary to analyze in detail the weaknesses of the existing spatial and urban plans that are in force for the territory of the property and its buffer zone, as a prelude to developing means for their strengthening.
Explaining the reasons for abandoning the cable car project, UNESCO states that this will prevent any negative impact on the "outstanding universal value of the property".
The moratorium on new construction and development should, they say, be maintained until a complete package of planning and protective measures is in place to satisfactorily harmonize any sustainable development within the sensitive landscape of the area and prevent any impact on the cultural and landscape values of the property. .
"It also requires the contracting state to carry out all relevant actions in response to the previous decisions of the Committee, and in particular to implement the PUB for all current or planned development projects, including the transport link on Veriga and the tourist facility on Glavata - Prčanj, as well as to submit the results of the HIA -e to the World Heritage Center, for review by advisory bodies, before undertaking further obligations," UNESCO said.
The UNESCO committee requested that Montenegro invite a joint World Heritage Center/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission for the properties, in order to assess the state of preservation, as well as the various reports and legal changes that have been produced, and to advise on what further activities are necessary to strengthen legal and planned protection of assets and their buffer zones and for coordinating their management.
Montenegro is expected to submit to the World Heritage Center by February 1, 2019, an updated detailed report on the state of preservation of all components of the property and the implementation of the required measures.
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