The World Heritage Committee decide about the Iranian site in its next session tomorrow Iran hopes its Armenian monastic ensembles will be added to UNESCO list, in the 32nd session of World Heritage Committee in Canada. The World Heritage Committee will be decide about the inscription of Iranian site in his next session tomorrow.

Tehran, 6 July 2008: Iran hopes its Armenian monastic ensembles will be added to UNESCO list, in the 32nd session of World Heritage Committee s in Canada. The World Heritage Committee s 32nd session started July 2 and will run for 8 days.

During this year s session 41 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, including Iran, will present properties for inscription on UNESCO s World Heritage List.

Among the applicants are five countries that have no sites inscribed on the List namely Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, San Marino, Saudi Arabia and Vanuatu.

Iran currently has eight historical sites on the UNESCO list. Pasargadae, Bam and its Cultural Landscape, Tchogha Zanbil, Persepolis, Meidan Emam in Esfahan, Bisotun, Takht-e Soleyman and Soltaniyeh, the mausoleum of Oljaytu. This time Iran is nominating its magnificent Armenian monastic ensembles in Azerbaijan province, hoping they will become its ninth inscription on the World Heritage List.

The Committee will also review the state of conservation of the 30 World Heritage sites inscribed on the  List of World Heritage in Danger  and may decide to add new sites to that list of properties whose preservation requires special attention.

The List in Danger features sites which are threatened by a variety of problems such as natural disasters, pillaging, pollution, and poorly managed mass tourism, that may have a negative impact on the universal values for which they were inscribed on the World Heritage List.

Among sites on the List in Danger, the cultural landscape of Germany s Dresden Elbe Valley will come under particular scrutiny. In keeping with the decision it took at its last meeting, the Committee will decide whether to keep the property on the World Heritage List or whether the building of a bridge in the heart of the landscape warrants its deletion from the list.

In the Middle East, applicants include Yemen for its Socotra Archipelago; Saudi Arabia for archaeological site al-Hijr and Israel for the triple-arch gate at Dan and the Bahai holy places in Haifa and western Galilee. 

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