Commissioner Glenn Micallef meets with ICCROM in Rome
Ambassador Martin Selmayr welcomed Commissioner Glenn Micallef and the Director-General of ICCROM, Ms Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral to Villa Europa for the high-level dialogue with Friends of ICCROM.
In times of immense geopolitical volatility and challenges to our rules-based international order, the European Union is and remains a reliable and predictable partner for multilateral organisations. This is why we gathered this week a “Group of friends” at Villa Europa to mobilise support for the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the intergovernmental organisations headquartered in Rome.
Created in the aftermath of the Second World War in response to widespread destruction and the urgent need to reconstruct cultural property, ICCROM’s mission is today more important than ever before. ICCROM is notably an important partner for the EU in preserving and restoring the cultural heritage of war-torn Ukraine. In our meeting, Glenn Micallef, the European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture, and Sport, announced a significant increase of our funding of ICCROM’s work in Ukraine. This opens a new chapter in our relations with ICCROM and we call on other partners of ICCROM to join us in support of efficient multilateralism.
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