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LITHUANIA ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE UESCO COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF ARMED CONFLICT

On 26 October the first meeting of the states party to the Second Protocol of 1999 of UNESCO 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict took place in Paris.

During the meeting Lithuania was elected a member of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

The Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict controls and supervises the implementation of the Second Protocol, promotes the identification of cultural property requiring special protection, makes and publishes the list of specially protected cultural property.