Roșia Montană in Ţara Moţilor
Roșia Montană in Ţara Moţilor

Summary/Abstract: The man ‘created’ before 1990 and trained through a ‘national’ or imported non-culture has no respect for the legacy of previous generations, because everything has to be transformed into ‘tinkling money’. The Romanian state leased the ‘Golden Quadrilateral’, which is also Ţara Moţilor, to a private company, ‘Gabriel Resources’, in order to exploit the gold in huge open-cast mines. Ancient customs, the development of specific crafts, mainly a civilization based on wood manufacturing, remarkable in its beauty, are all in danger of disappearing. Roșia Montană is not the most serious case of threat against cultural heritage; it is the most well-known due to its value within Țara Moţilor, the involvement of the worldwide scientific bodies, civil society and scientists.Political imperatives have stopped the process of enlisting Roşia Montană into UNESCO Tentative List advanced by the minister H. Kelemen in 2010. Nobody can believe the fact that the State is represented by people that support the interests of a private company and not the safeguarding of the national heritage, declared as such by laws in force!Romanian state neglects on purpose the long term benefit from the inclusion of Ţara Moţilor in UNESCO as a cultural landscape in evolution! The Romanian state does not consider the obligation to form in the local mentality the desire to strengthen its existence through the possibilities offered by the richness of the natural and cultural heritage.

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