UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee adds 34 new heritage sites to its list

The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO has wrapped in Fuzhou capital of Chinas Fujian province with a total of 34 new sites inscribed on the World Heritage List As the session ended on Saturday the latest inscriptions which include 29 cultural sites and five natural ones bring the total number of sites on UNESCOs World Heritage to 1154 reports Xinhua news agency Among the newly added sites is Quanzhou Emporium of the World in SongYuan China in Fujian which brings the number of world heritage sites in the country to 56 The Chongqing Wulipo National Nature Reserve officially became part of the Hubei Shennongjia World Heritage Site after a minor modification to Shennongjias boundaries during the session The Committee reviewed over 200 state of conservation reports of world heritage properties and recognised three properties namely the Great Wall of China and Tai National Park and Comoe National Park both in Cote dIvoire as the model cases of conservation and management said Tian Xuejun chair of the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee The Committee decided to remove the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City of Britain from the world heritage list It was the first world heritage site deleted in the past 10 years The Fuzhou Declaration was adopted during the session reiterating the principle of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and calling for scaling up support to developing countries especially to African countries and Small Island Developing States Tian said the session implemented UNESCOs global strategy of Priority Africa as two properties from Africa were newly inscribed on the list The Committee also fully recognised the achievements and progress made by the Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in eliminating threats of war and illegal poaching and unanimously agreed to remove it from the List of World Heritage in Danger Tian said the session has made significant headway in the reform of application procedures of properties Starting in September 2023 preevaluation will be required to facilitate the communication between the committee and advisory bodies at an early stage of a nominationAlso Read UNESCO removes Liverpool from World Heritage List after 17 yearsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever