Three sites 'in danger' added to UNESCO World Heritage List - CNN

(CNN) — The historical halfway of the Ukrainian larboard metropolis of Odesa and sites successful Yemen and Lebanon were added to the World Heritage List Wednesday by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

All 3 sites were simultaneously added to UNESCO's List of World Heritage successful Danger.

UNESCO's founding Convention obliges each members -- among whom are Russia and Ukraine -- to "not instrumentality immoderate deliberate measures that straight oregon indirectly harm their practice oregon that of different State Party to the Convention."

Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, said successful a connection that helium hoped the listing would assistance support Odesa from the war.

"Odesa, a escaped city, a satellite city, a legendary larboard that has near its people connected cinema, lit and the arts, is frankincense placed nether the reinforced extortion of the planetary community," Azoulay said.

"While the warfare continues, this inscription embodies our corporate determination to guarantee that this city, which has ever surmounted planetary upheavals, is preserved from further destruction."

The connection said that the determination would springiness Ukraine entree to "technical and fiscal planetary assistance" to support and rehabilitate the metropolis center.

The inscription was made during an bonzer league of the World Heritage Committee successful Paris.

The gathering addressed 3 threatened sites:

• Historic Center of Odesa (Ukraine)
• Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli (Lebanon)
• Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba successful Marib Governorate (Yemen)

All 3 are present listed connected some the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage successful Danger.

In Yemen, the tract includes 7 archaeological sites that amusement the architectural, aesthetic and technological achievements of the Kingdom of Saba from the 1st millennium BCE to the accomplishment of Islam astir 630 CE.

The tract was added to the "in danger" database owed to threats posed to the tract from the ongoing struggle successful Yemen.

The tract successful Lebanon, Rachid Karami International Fair successful Tripoli, was designed successful 1962 by the Brazilian designer Oscar Niemeyer. Its main gathering is simply a boomerang-shaped covered accumulation hall.

"It is 1 of the large typical works of 20th-century modern architecture successful the Arab Near East," UNESCO said successful a quality release.

It was added to the threatened database owed to its "alarming authorities of conservation, the deficiency of fiscal resources for its maintenance, and the latent hazard of improvement proposals that could impact the integrity of the complex," UNESCO said.

CNN's Marnie Hunter contributed to this report.

Top image: The historical halfway of Odesa, Ukraine, is present listed connected UNESCO's World Heritage List. (bergamont/iStockphoto/Getty Images)