PARIS (Kyodo) UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura has revealed that he asked the United States not to damage cultural assets in Afghanistan and Iraq before military operations were launched in both countries.
Matsuura said in a recent interview that he made the request in letters to the State Department before the launch of the operations in Afghanistan in 2001 and in Iraq in 2003.
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