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The 34th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee opens on 25 July 2010. Committee members face a busy ten days during which representatives of 35 nations will get their chance for inclusion of sites on the World Heritage List.
Seeking World Heritage Listing
A total of 32 properties are under consideration for inscription on the World Heritage List at this year’s meeting of the Committee. Six are natural sites, 24 are cultural and two are a mixture of both. Four of the nominations cross national borders. There are also another nine submissions for extension to properties already listed. Three of the applicant countries – Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Tajikistan – currently have no listed World Heritage sites. Applicants are seeking to have their valued sites added to a list that already recognises 890 in 148 countries, properties UNESCO considers of “outstanding universal value.”
One of UNESCO’s roles is to “encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.” To achieve its goals, in 1972 the organisation adopted the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.