Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear gives a speech at the Basse-Normandie's Regional council, on August 2, 2012 in Caen, northwestern France. Beshear is in Normandy for meetings with the French President of the Normandy Council and its members, to help to organize the next Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, held in Normandy in 2014. In 2010, the Kentucky state organized the World Equestrian Games. Also, Beshear came to support the call to add the beaches where Allied forces landed as part of the Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II, to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.
