Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem placed on
UNESCO's world heritage sites in danger list.
The 21-member committee, meeting in St.
Petersburg, Russia, voted 13 in favor, six against and two abstentions, to
include the church and pilgrimage route on its list of sites, where located in
the Israeli-controlled West Bank.
Among those who opposed to list the nominated
church included the U.S. and Israeli, which don't recognize the proposing body,
the Palestine, which became a member of UNESO last year but hasn't been
recognized as a state of the main body, the U.N. yet.
Historically and practically, when people or
countries are unable to open dialogues, exchanges or trade, cultural activities
or emergency aid seem to take place beforehand as they are usually harmless and
their values are shared by the most. However, those two tightly-tied countries
strongly opposed the proposal. Why?
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