ボルシチを消滅危機の無形文化遺産に指定　ユネスコ

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】国連教育科学文化機関（ユネスコ）は１日、ウクライナで広く食べられているボルシチ料理を、消滅の危機にひんする無形文化遺産に指定した。ロシア政府はボルシチをウクライナのものとする指定に反対している。（写真はウクライナ東部ドネツク郊外で、ボルシチを作る地元市民）
　ウクライナ人はボルシチを国を代表する料理だと見なしているが、ロシアなどの旧ソビエト連邦構成国やポーランドでもよく食べられている。
　ユネスコはウクライナのボルシチ料理を「きょう、ユネスコの緊急保護を必要とする無形文化遺産リストに書き加えた」と発表した。ロシアのウクライナ侵攻と、侵攻がもたらす「この伝統への負の影響」を考慮し、承認プロセスを迅速化したとしている。
　ウクライナのオレクサンドル・トカチェンコ文化情報相はテレグラムに「ボルシチ戦争の勝利はわれわれのものだ」と投稿した。さらに、ロシアによる侵攻に言及し、ウクライナは「ボルシチ戦争とこの戦争の両方で勝利する」と付け加えた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/07/04-14:25）

The UN's cultural agency on Friday inscribed the culture of cooking borshch soup in Ukraine on its list of endangered cultural heritage, in a move urged by Kyiv but vehemently opposed by Moscow.
Ukraine considers borshch -- a thick nourishing soup usually made with beetroot -- as a national dish although it is also widely consumed in Russia, other ex-Soviet countries and Poland.
The culture of Ukrainian borshch cooking was today inscribed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding by a UNESCO committee.
The decision was approved after a fast-track process prompted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the negative impact on this tradition caused by the war, UNESCO said.
Kyiv hailed the move, with Ukraine's Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko saying on Telegram that victory in the borshch war is ours... will win both in the war of borshch and in this war.
Adding the soup culture to the UNESCO list aims at mobilising attention to ensure it is preserved despite risks to its existence.
The committee noted that the war had threatened the viability of the soup culture in Ukraine.
The displacement of people (poses a threat)... as people are unable not only to cook or grow local vegetables for borshch, but also to come together... which undermines the social and cultural well-being of communities.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had slammed the move as a bid to make it belong to one people... one nationality... This is xenophobia, she said.
But UNESCO noted that Ukrainian borshch was just a version of a dish popular elsewhere and was essential to daily life in in the country.
Ukrainian borshch -- the national version of borscht consumed in several countries of the region -- is an integral part of Ukrainian family and community life.