The Bokel navy will be a candidate for the UNESCO world cultural heritage list, announced Prime Minister Duško Marković and added that the Bokel navy and the Circle of St. Tripun belong to all citizens of Montenegro and that everyone has the right to identify with these values. Croatian Civic Initiative MP Adrijan Vuksanović asked Marković whether the Ministry of Culture, during the candidacy of the Bokel navy for the UNESCO list of intangible cultural treasures, "left out the cult of St. Tripun and the name of the Croatian people in the text itself." Marković said at the prime minister's hour that Montenegro, as a country that inherits multiculturalism as a basic value, treats its entire heritage integrally, integrally, without dividing it according to national affiliation. "Because we are talking about cultural values that belong to citizens, to the whole society, and with which everyone has the right to identify," said the Prime Minister. Marković stated that this is a traditional military-naval organization whose membership was not, and is not, nationally limited. As he added, one of the essential values of the Bokel Navy is its openness and supranationality, and its tradition of promoting peace, equality, intercultural harmony and tolerance. Marković pointed out that after the candidacy for the UNESCO Representative List, the Bokel Navy will belong to all citizens of the world, "so appropriation by any party is unnecessary in this case". "Especially because the Bokel navy is a cultural asset that is older than the emergence of nation states in the Balkans, that is, it represents a heritage that has survived despite numerous socio-historical circumstances and cultural influences," said Marković. According to him, the Boka Navy was maintained by the local community of Boka Kotorska, passing it down from generation to generation and bearing witness to the historical and symbolic values of peacetime seafaring in Boka Kotorska. "Proceeding from the fact that the guardian of the value of the Bokel Navy is the local community, which is recognized as the bearer of this cultural asset by the Decision on entry into the appropriate register, the Ministry of Culture actively included the organization that preserves the tradition of the Bokel Navy in the preparation of the Nomination File from the very beginning" , said Marković. As he stated, the entire process of preparing the application text was carried out in cooperation with representatives of the Ministry of Culture, the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Property and the Bokel Navy. Marković reminded that as part of the preparation of the text, the Assembly of the organization was held, where the text of the nomination file was presented in detail and finally agreed upon. The Prime Minister emphasized the inseparability of the Bokel Navy Wheel from Kotor's Old Town, which represents one of the most representative cultural assets of Montenegro.
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