The Palestinian-Israeli conflict was not the only source of
enmity at this week's meeting of the UNESCO Executive Board in Paris.
Reverberations of Yugoslavia's
disintegration were also felt as Kosovo lobbied successfully to have its bid to
become a full member state recommended to proceed to a final vote at UNESCO's
general conference in November, despite fierce opposition by Serbia
and its allies.
In reaction to the Executive Board's decision Serbian President
Tomislav Nikolic aptly characterized the binary view of national heritage which
seems to go hand in hand with nationalist rivalry the world over: "The aim is to falsify history and to
create a new state, a national and cultural identity which implies the total
extinction of everything that testifies about the Serb presence [in
Kosovo],"
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