During a visit last Saturday to the restoration site of the Ujumbe Palace in Mutsamudu, the Minister of Arts and Culture announced the release, soon, of Saudi funds intended for the preservation of five heritage sites in the Union of the Comoros .
The Minister of Arts and Culture, Djaanfar Salim Allaoui, visiting Ujumbe Palace on Saturday, September 23, said he was “deeply impressed by the work accomplished by the Comoros Heritage Collective to restore this monument. He expressed his great admiration for the association, because of “its character, its faith and its convictions”.
At the same time, he made a major announcement: the minister revealed that foreign funding will soon be released for the preservation of five heritage sites selected in the UNESCO world heritage nomination file. “Within a month, at most, Saudi funds will be made available to the five sites selected in the UNESCO World Heritage nomination file. The association will have a minister at its side to move forward in this work.
Together, we must be guardians of our heritage. I therefore ask the looters to return the objects they stole from these sites,” he said.
The president of the Comoros Heritage Collective, Fatima Boyer, welcomed the minister’s visit, considered as a government commitment to safeguarding national heritage.
She expressed the hope of seeing increased support from the minister and the government for the restoration work of the Ujumbé and other buildings of the serial site called “Historic Sultanates of the Comoros”, which is a candidate for inscription as a world heritage site. of Unesco.