Culture Archives | U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis

Today is World Heritage Day, when we pause to consider the importance of cultural heritage, as well as its vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. One of the many ways the United States works to preserve cultural heritage and property around the world is through its support to ICCROM - conserving culture, ...

By USUN Rome Mission | 18 April, 2017 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, News, Success Stories, Travel & Tourism | Tags: cultural heritage, culture, ICCROM

The U.S. Embassy in Abuja Provides $116,000 Grant for Preservation of Nigeria’s Cultural Heritage

On February 13, 2017 the United States Embassy in Abuja announced a $116, 000 grant through the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation program, for the preservation of cultural heritage in Nigeria. U.S. Ambassador W. Stuart Symington witnessed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding of the grant between the International Center for the Study of ...

By USUN Rome Mission | 15 February, 2017 | Topics: Africa, Culture, News | Tags: cultural heritage, Nigeria

Dr. Rajiv Shah gives the 12th Annual George McGovern Lecture at the UN Food and Agriculture Agency

It is an honour to be able to give the McGovern lecture. I first met Senator George McGovern, Ambassador George McGovern in the mid 2000s and his photo here perhaps expresses what we all know to be his good humor and his commitment to this fight against hunger. I met him through a mutual friend, ...

By USUN Rome Mission | 16 November, 2015 | Topics: Agriculture, Culture, News, Speeches, U.S. Agencies

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