EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Summary minutes of the second
trilateral meeting
(Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine)
"Beech forests as UNESCO World
Heritage"
Isle of Vilm/Germany,
28.11.- 01.12.2008
The second trilateral meeting took place in a very cooperative and constructive atmosphere
with a total of 23 representatives from the Slovak Republic, Ukraine and Germany. Dr Nickel
from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety,
head of the German delegation, opened the meeting. The German delegation congratulated
the guest delegations on the inscription of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians on
UNESCO's World Heritage List. Dr Igor Ivanenko, head of the Ukrainian delegation, and Ms
Lucia Fančová, head of the Slovakian delegation, in their opening statements both welcomed
the continuation of the trilateral exchange with the aim of strengthening cooperation on
beech forests within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Both
reiterated the willingness of their ministries to support the extension of a cluster of selected
German sites of beech forests to the already inscribed Primeval Beech Forests of the
Carpathians.
All three countries affirmed their determination to cooperate closely under the UNESCO
World Heritage Convention for the protection of their outstanding beech forests and to draw
up recommendations for a Memorandum of Understanding on future cooperation as well as a
joint work programme with a specific focus at the second trilateral meeting.
The Slovakian and Ukrainian delegations presented the basic elements of management of
the joint Slovakian-Ukrainian UNESCO World Natural Heritage Property Primeval Beech
Forests of the Carpathians. Management, including monitoring, was identified as an
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