EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Summary minutes of the fourth
trilateral meeting
(Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine)
"Beech forests as UNESCO World
Heritage"
Bonn, Germany, 17 November 2009
The fourth trilateral meeting took place once again in a very cooperative and constructive
atmosphere with a total of 18 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 and chaired the meeting. The
German delegation thanked its partners from Slovakia and Ukraine for their continuous
support for the intended German extension nomination.
The Ukrainian delegation was headed by Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection
Mykola Movchan. In his welcome address he reported on the positive current developments
in Ukraine, in particular the Presidential Decree of 14 August 2009 on additional measures to
improve the management of protected areas and the commissioning of the Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine to draw up a plan of measures to support the World Heritage Property
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, including surrounding areas, by 2010 and the
further development of international cooperation in this field. He reaffirmed that the Ukrainian
Ministry of Environmental Protection wanted to sign the MoU elaborated by the three parties,
and that it would continue to support the German extension nomination in order to ensure
better protection and long-term conservation of the World Heritage of beech forests and to
intensify cooperation in environmental protection.
In his welcome address, Dr Ladislav Ambróš, head of the Slovak delegation and Director-
General for Nature Conservation at the Ministry of Environment, stressed the importance of
continuing the trilateral cooperation and, as a priority, the prompt signing of the
Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Cooperation on the Protection of their
Natural Beech Forests as an Object of Outstanding Universal Value (hereinafter referred to
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