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UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay at the ceremony that commemorates the inscription of the historic center of Odesa in Ukraine on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has added the Ukrainian city of Odesa to its list of protected World Heritage sites amid the war with Russia.

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“This inscription embodies our collective determination to ensure that this city, which has always surmounted global upheavals, is preserved from further destruction.”

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Greece has welcomed the decision by the World Heritage Committee’s to include the Historic Centre of the city of Odessa in Ukraine on the World Heritage List, it said in a statement on Thursday.

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The plight of Odesa recalls the addition of Dubrovnik, in Croatia, to the UNESCO World Heritage in Danger list in December 1991 following Serb bombing of its historic centre.

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UNESCO on Wednesday added the historic centre of Ukraine’s port city of Odessa, often described as “the pearl of the Black Sea”, to its World Heritage List despite opposition from Russia.The site was also added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, which UNESCO says “gives it access to reinforced technical and financial international assistance” to protect or, if necessary, rehabilitate it.

Source: UNESCO lists Odessa historical centre as world heritage site