Paris mayor suggests organizing int'l donor conf. to restore Notre Dame

PARIS, April 16 (MENA) - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday proposed organizing an international donor conference to coordinate the pledges to restore Notre Dame Cathedral, The Local reported.

The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO has also promised to stand "at France's side" to restore the site, which it declared a world heritage site in 1991.

Firefighters have completely extinguished a "significant fire" that broke out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Monday evening.

Both the spire and roof of the cathedral collapsed, but the main structure was preserved.