"Kanayama on Sado Island" is difficult to register due to inadequate recommendation letter

Following the difficulty of registering "Kanayama on Sado Island" as a World Cultural Heritage site next year due to a lack of nominations, the LDP joint session was criticized by the government one after another.

"Government blunder" "Apology to Niigata Prefecture and Sado City"

The government submitted a letter of recommendation to UNESCO with the aim of registering "Kanayama on Sado Island" in Niigata Prefecture as a World Cultural Heritage site. It has become difficult.

The Liberal Democratic Party held a joint meeting on the 29th, and the chairman of the political investigation of Takaichi said, "We have continued to support the realization of registration by creating a parliamentary federation, but I never imagined that the documents would be incomplete. I want you to do it. "

At the meeting, criticisms of the government continued, such as "It is a catastrophic failure of the government and I want to ask for a scrutiny" and "A problem arose due to lack of information sharing with local governments."

In addition, there was an opinion requesting Niigata Prefecture and Sado City to apologize, and Secretary-General Yoshimoto of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said, "I would like to dispatch a high-ranking official."

After that, the joint meeting, in cooperation with the local government, put together a resolution calling for the prompt completion of a fulfilling recommendation letter, and applied to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Suematsu.

Mr. Takatori, Chairman of the Niigata Prefectural Federation, "I lost the relationship of trust without explanation for about 5 months."

Shuichi Takatori, a member of the House of Representatives who is the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's Niigata Prefectural Federation, told reporters at the party headquarters, "For about five months after being pointed out by UNESCO in February, there was no explanation from the government and no information was shared. It is very damaging to the relationship of trust. We must investigate the cause and seriously consider future measures. "

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Suematsu "We will do our best to submit the provisional version by the end of September"

At a press conference, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Suematsu said, "If the content of the discussion becomes clear during the ongoing discussion with the UNESCO Secretariat, the attitude of the UNESCO Secretariat will harden and affect the trend of the discussion. I refrained from reporting to the people concerned because I was concerned about giving it. In the future, I would like to do my utmost to submit a provisional version of the recommendation letter by the end of September, with cooperation with the local government in mind. " I did.