MANIFESTO FOR ACCESSION:

MANIFESTO

LET US SAVE THE BUILT CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU

Peru, as a multi-ethnic and multicultural society, which is made off a set of Nations with cultural manifestations that magnify our millennial roots, has forged a contemporary identity based on the material and insubstantial heritage legacy, tangible and intangible, developed and consolidated in time as only few countries in the globe have.

Nowadays Nations in the world realize the significance of natural and cultural heritage, considered as non-renewable resources, and they subscribe multiple international laws for worldwide cultural heritage preservation and conservation, which stimulates each and every Nation to create as National Policy norms to safeguard National Cultural Heritage within their jurisdictions.

Peru, has signed the 1972 Convention for the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage, endorsed by the Peruvian Congress through the legislative resolution Nº 23349 of December 1981. In addition, our country has developed and approved multiple national laws, such as the general law of the cultural heritage standards Act Nº 28296, although its implementation is somewhat partial and frequently marginalized by public institutions.

This gap between the public institutional standards and legal competencies causes extremely alarming and harmful acts contrary to the preservation of the Built National Cultural Heritage, which has motivated that the undersigned as civil society members and participants of the Forum “Patrimonio Vivo”, consider their duty to express to the authorities and community in general, the following:
1. Reject any public or private action that violates the protection, conservation and disclosure of the Built Cultural Heritage of our country, as the following emblematic and known cases show:
Lima: approval of harmful projects at the Historical Center (cable car, civic centre, Paseo de los Heroes Navales, Lampa - Emancipacion viaduct, Trujillo and Balta bridges, Casa Castilla, Plaza Washington, Parque de la Reserva, Parque Neptuno, Huaca San Marcos, Huaca Oquendo, Teatro Municipal; in the Barranco district: Plaza Principal, city express way, historic residences such as the one owned by the historian Gustavo Pons Musso; Campo de Marte and Parque de los Próceres in Jesus Maria District, Parque de la Media Luna in San Miguel District.
Ica: Cathedral, Sanctuary of the Lord of Luren.
Lambayeque: historic centers of Chiclayo and Lambayeque, (and) Hotel Royal.
La Libertad: historical centre of Trujillo, Huaca del Sol.
Callao: historical centre, Real Felipe Fortress.
Huacho: old market of Huacho.
Canta: sanctuary of the Lord of Huamantanga.
Cusco: Historic Centre and ancient convent of Saint Augustine’s block.
Historic centers of Cajamarca, Chachapoyas, Piura, Ferreñafe, Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Jauja. Lobitos camp - amongst other historical centers and archaeological sites.

In all these cases destructions, alterations and deformities have occurred which could have been avoided by following appropriate technical, regulatory and administrative procedures and listening to technical opinions besides fostering and promoting local communities’ participation.

2. the actions of the National Institute of Culture reveals the absence of a State Policy for the Conservation of Built Cultural heritage expressed in the lack of strategic planning and specific directives, deficiency of material and human resources and generally speaking in an institutional weakness with lack of leadership and summoning capacity.

3. Is in this context that we demand that the National Institute of culture:
a. reconsider administrative acts that affect drastically the protection and conservation of our Built Cultural Heritage, inheritance that belongs to all Peruvians, and therefore restoring the status of cultural heritage to the Built heritage that have become legally helpless as Ica`s Lord of Luren sanctuary and the Old market of Huacho, now exposed to immediate demolition; as well as acting ex officio to protect and paralyze works that have not been technically advised in the different cultural sites mentioned in paragraph one.
b. fully comply with the function entrusted by law, "... strengthen the national identity by fulfilling decentralized actions of protection, conservation and promotion, valuing and disseminating heritage and national cultural manifestations so as to contribute to national development with active participation of the community and public and private stakeholders " (http://www.inc.gob.pe/), and as an entity that represents the Peruvian State in cultural issues also act upon International lawful topics assumed by Peru.

4. Exhort Central, Regional and local Governments to meet the terms of UNESCO’s observations and recommendations for cases such as Lima and Arequipa`s Historical centers, cultural sites recognized as world heritage.

Likewise, facing this serious situation that is being experienced by the Built Cultural heritage of the Peruvian nation, we allow ourselves to recommend and propose the following:
1. Our National Institute of Culture reorientation and strengthening so as to meet the objectives and tasks for which it was created.
2. Historic centers of the country, such as Lima’s, must have an updated Management plan, prepared in a participatory fashion and approved by corresponding institutions and executed by a technical – not political – autonomous body, with its own budget so as to ensure proper management and administration in accordance with UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre’s recommendations.
3. Encourage heritage buildings owners to conserve and implement in value their property with appropriate financial mechanisms, exemptions and tax incentives.
4. The creation of a Rescue Fund, dedicated exclusively to the Built Cultural heritage protection and conservation, whose economic resources should come from the State – a Canon percentage (mining and oil or Ports); tax percentage (alcoholic beverages, tobacco, etc.), as well as from national and international cooperation.
5. The appliance concerning expropriation, as a safeguard of built heritage in risk established by the Peruvian National Cultural Heritage General Law, Nº 28296, article 11.

Lima, May 24, 2009

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