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COVID-19 and Security Issues Hamper Myanmar’s Efforts to List Mrauk-U with UN
A pagoda in Mrauk-U. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy
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By Zue Zue 19 January 2021
Yangon COVID-19 and security issues are making it difficult for the government to continue with follow-up work to allow the nomination of Rakhine State’s Mrauk-U to become a Unesco World Heritage Site.
Myanmar submitted a draft nomination to the United Nations cultural agency in September 2019 and a final application in January 2020. But one year after submitting the final application, Myanmar has yet to finalize the management plan.
Field surveys could not be conducted in Mrauk-U amid fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) that broke out in the township in March 2019 and continued until late last year. And Unesco has not been able to conduct a survey due to COVID-19.