Vatican City, 26 November 2015 (VIS) –
Today in the in the Palace of the Governorate, a Memorandum of
Understanding was signed by the Governorate of Vatican City State and
the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism of the
Italian Republic on cooperation in the protection and enhancement of
cross-border UNESCO site, the “Historic centre of Rome, the
extraterritorial properties of the Holy See in the city and St. Paul
Outside-the-Walls”, registered in the World Heritage List.
The Memorandum was signed on behalf of
the Holy See by Bishop Fernando Vergez Alzaga, L.C., general
secretary of the Governorate of Vatican City State, and for the
Italian Republic by Antonia Pasqua Recchia, general secretary of the
Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.
Given that the cross-border site,
“Historic centre of Rome, the extraterritorial properties of the
Holy See in the city and St. Paul Outside-the-Walls” necessarily
involves both Italy and the Holy See, each in accordance with its own
jurisdiction, the Memorandum of Understanding, notwithstanding
reciprocal competences and in compliance with its legislation, the
Parties undertake to continue their cooperation in the protection and
enhancement of the site, as well as the conservation of its
exceptional universal value, as established in the Convention
Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, and
the related guidelines.
To reach these objectives, this
agreement also institutes a permanent body for mutual cooperation,
the “Cross-Border Coordination Group”, to whom the competences of
coordination, monitoring, information and the enhancement of the site
are conferred.
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