World heritage. what UNESCO added to the list of the plot. Ancient port city of Qalhat, Oman

From June 24 to July 6, 2012, the 36th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee was held in St. Petersburg. For the first time in the history of UNESCO, the session was held in Russia, and, what is especially honorable, in the year of the 40th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. By the decision of the head of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Polilog Agency LLC became the sole executor of the state contract for the preparation and holding of the event.

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The sessions of the session were held in the Tauride Palace under the chairmanship of Eleonora Mitrofanova, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to UNESCO.

The session was attended by over 2,000 representatives from 119 countries, including 338 delegates from member countries of the Committee, as well as observers from States Parties to the Convention, international organizations and non-governmental associations, scientists, experts.

For the first time at the session of the Committee, a webcast of all plenary sessions was organized on the official website of the session (www.whc36-russia2012.ru), in the Press Center, accredited media got the opportunity to observe the work of the Committee, participate in press conferences and interviews with representatives of delegations. The session was covered by about 300 accredited journalists.

The delegates of the session considered more than 50 working papers relating to various aspects of the implementation of the Convention and adopted 241 resolutions, reaffirming, in particular, the relevance of this international treaty, whose participants are currently 189 states, and speaking in favor of the need for a balance between its goals and objectives of sustainable development.

One of the main outcomes of the event was the inclusion in the List world heritage UNESCO 26 new sites - 5 natural, 20 cultural and one mixed. Russia has replenished its contribution to the universal treasury with the Lena Pillars natural park. The total number of objects protected by the Convention has reached 962, and the number of countries where they are located has grown to 157.

Within the framework of the session, side events were implemented: the International Youth Forum was held in the All-Russian Children's Center "Orlyonok" from May 30 to June 20, and the Youth Model of the World Heritage Committee was held in Kazan from July 1 to 9. Such actions allow instilling in the younger generation a respectful attitude towards the culture and nature of their country and joining the joint work to preserve the world heritage.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky

In the final speeches, the participants of the session unanimously noted the highest level of preparation by the Russian Federation for the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee. Thanks were expressed to the leadership of the Russian Federation, the Russian organizers and personally to the Chairman of the Committee, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to UNESCO E.V. Mitrofanova.

Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has been elected as the new Chairman of the World Heritage Committee. The next - 37th session of the Committee will be held in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) on 17-27 June 2013.

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The work of "Polylog"

The Agency created the Session Directorate, which included more than 40 qualified specialists and 25 contracting organizations.

The work of the Directorate was focused on all key areas:

1. Building all premises of the Tauride Palace in accordance with UNESCO international standards, including: technical equipment, furniture, simultaneous translation into 6 languages, provision of protocol meetings and negotiations.
2. Operational session planning- making adjustments to the session schedule, coordinating changes with the secretariat and informing delegates about the work schedule, creating information desks and an internal postal service for delegates.
3. Technical support session work: work of a high-speed copy center, creation local network more than 100 desktop computers, high speed wifi internet throughout the palace, coordinating the work of contractors for internal and webcasting of Committee meetings, providing delegates and the Secretariat with working areas with Internet access and working documents of the session, installing an electronic access system and a mobile accreditation center, providing delegates and staff with mobile communications, special walkie-talkies for communications. Professional photographers and videographers recorded the main moments of the session, in the near future a 20-minute film following the event will be released.
4. Logistic support- formation of an integrated transport scheme for the event, taking into account the movement of 2000 session delegates, protocol meetings and sessions. Organization of the work of the VIP-hall for meetings of high-status guests at Pulkovo Airport 2. Construction of information desks at the main stations of St. transport connection between the main objects of the session using shuttles, buses, cars and water transport.
5. PR support events - a system of interaction between the Press Center of the session and representatives of the UNESCO press service for the operational preparation and distribution of press releases was formed. News and photo materials were posted on the official website of the session on a daily basis. Workplaces were provided for journalists in the Press Center, which made it possible to transfer materials and recordings of the broadcast directly to publications. Press conferences, interviews and field events of the Committee's leadership were organized with the participation of leading Russian media. On the this moment More than 1,500 information messages were issued following the session Russian media and more than 200 messages in foreign media.
6. Catering delegates and staff throughout the session, including coffee breaks, buffet lunches and evening banquets.
7. Security events at the highest state level with the support Federal Service Security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the traffic police and their own security services, including the territory of the Tauride Palace, mobile groups, transport security, boats for the protection of water areas, etc.
8. Establishing a Well-Trained Temporary Staff Service and volunteers in the amount of more than 500 people, a multi-channel call center and lost&found service. The high qualification of the staff, friendliness and professionalism were marked by many thanks from the delegates and the leadership of UNESCO.
9. Organization of cultural program for delegates and guests with the support of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg, including rich concerts of artists and ensembles, visits to museums and historical monuments of St. Petersburg, outdoor events in Peterhof, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Pulkovo Observatory, the Hermitage and many other places.

• Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
• Government of St. Petersburg
• Government of the Republic of Tatarstan
• UNESCO World Heritage Committee
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On June 25, in Doha (Qatar), the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee, the main body of the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of 1972, completed its work.

During the ten-day work of the session, 26 new unique cultural and natural monuments were included in the World Heritage List, by decision of international experts.

Among the objects included are 21 cultural, 4 natural and 1 mixed. For the first time, a nomination from Myanmar has been included in the World Heritage List. Thus, the total number of monuments of outstanding universal significance included in the prestigious UNESCO list is (on the territory of 161 countries).

During the session, the member countries of the Committee considered the basic issues of implementing the 1972 UNESCO Convention (Russia has been a member since 1988). About 250 working papers were considered and over 150 decisions were made concerning various aspects of the implementation of the Convention - one of the most requested international agreements to which 191 States are parties.

The session approved a landmark - the 1000th World Heritage Site - the honor of assigning which was given to the country representing the African continent (Botswana).

Part Russian delegation under the leadership of the Permanent Representative to UNESCO E.V. Mitrofanova included Director of the Russian Research Institute of Heritage P.E. Yudin, Assistant to the President of Tatarstan T.P. Larionova, Minister of Culture of Tatarstan A.M. Sibagatullin, experts from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, the State Control Committee, the use and protection of historical and cultural monuments of the Administration of St. Petersburg, the Museum-Reserve "Kizhi", as well as other interested departments and organizations.

An important result of the session for Russia was the UNESCO new Russian cultural site "Bulgarian Historical and Archaeological Complex" (Tatarstan). The basis for the decision was the compliance of the Russian nomination with the criteria stipulated by the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of 1972. International experts agreed with the presented justification of the outstanding global value of the Ancient Bolgar, recognizing that it is a clear evidence of the relationship and historical mutual enrichment of the cultural traditions of the peoples of Eurasia - Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Slavic and others, especially during the development of the Volga Bulgaria, the Golden Horde, Kazan Khanate and the Russian state.

The session considered the Russian application for a minor change in the buffer zone of the Kizhi Pogost facility. The efforts of the Russian Federation to promote the international thematic initiative "Astronomy and World Heritage" (Russia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ukraine, USA, etc.), the organization of the first Moscow International seminar for religious representatives on the management of objects of the world heritage of religious significance, the creation international center UNESCO Category 2 World Heritage for the CIS countries and Eastern Europe.

For the approval of the Committee, reports were submitted on the status of over 100 UNESCO-protected sites, including Russian ones: “Kizhi Pogost”, “Historic Center of Yaroslavl”, “Cultural and Historical Complex of the Solovetsky Islands”, “Curonian Spit” (cross-border with Lithuania), “ Lake Baikal", "Western Caucasus" and "Virgin forests of Komi". UNESCO international experts have proposed recommendations for ensuring the continued preservation of the outstanding universal value of these Russian sites. In addition, the decisions of the KVN formulated warnings in connection with the information available to the Organization about foreign projects that could harm unique Russian natural monuments.

Successes were noted in the implementation of the recommendations of the Committee on the object "The Historic Center of St. Petersburg and Groups of Monuments Associated with It". It is emphasized that , presented by the Russian Federation, reflects a noticeable progress in the implementation of the decision of the World Heritage Committee, adopted at the 36th session of the WHC (St. Petersburg, 2012). A positive assessment was expressed based on the results of the work of a group of international experts on the issue of clarifying the boundaries of this object and development in Russia legal mechanism protection and management of World Heritage properties. The successful completion of the retrospective inventory (WHC-14/38.COM/8D) of St. Petersburg components was noted.

It is recognized that the state of conservation of the object "The Historic Center of St. Petersburg and related groups of monuments" is provided adequately.

By decision of the member countries of the KVN, revised wordings of the provisions on the outstanding universal value of a number of Russian objects of world importance included in the UNESCO List were approved: “The Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye”, “The Historic Center of Yaroslavl”, “Kizhi Pogost”, as well as the transboundary “Struve Geodetic Arc” "(with the participation of Russia and 9 other countries)," curonian spit"and" Ubsunur basin "(with Mongolia).

In addition, it should be noted that at the session in Qatar, the member countries of the World Heritage Committee were approved, which became a continuation of the initiative laid down during the first UNESCO Youth Model in Kazan in July 2012 at the suggestion of the Russian organizers of the 36th session of the WHC.

Elected as new Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee Maria Bohmer,Minister of State for Cultural Relations and Educational Policy inMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

The next, 39th, session of the Committee will be held in Bonn (Germany) from June 28 to July 8, 2014.

Information from the Permanent Delegation of Russia to UNESCO

The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has been meeting since June 24, 2018 in Manama (Bahrain) under the chairmanship of Sheikha Haya Rashid Al Khalifa, has included nine new sites in the World Heritage List.

This is stated on the official website of UNESCO.

The UNESCO World Heritage List has been replenished with objects from Kenya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Germany, India, Iran, Japan and Korea, in particular these are:

The archaeological site of Thimlich Ohinga (Kenya) is a fortified stone structure built using the dry masonry method, probably in the 16th century.

The ancient city of Kalhat (Oman) is a unique archaeological evidence of trade between the inhabitants of the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, India, China and Southeast Asia.

Oasis of Al-Ahsa ( Saudi Arabia) - a system object consisting of gardens, canals, springs, a drainage lake, historical buildings and archaeological sites. Al Ahsa is the largest oasis in the world with 2.5 million palm trees.

Inuit hunting grounds of Greenland (Denmark) - cultural landscape inside the Arctic Circle, including winter homes of hunters on reindeer and archaeological sites of the Inuit culture.

Archaeological site of Hedeby and Danevirke (Germany) - important shopping center Danish Vikings.

Complexes in the style of Victorian Gothic and Art Deco in Mumbai (India). "These two ensembles testify to the stages of modernization that Mumbai went through during the 19th and 20th centuries," the UNESCO decision says.

Sassanian archaeological landscape of Fars province (Iran) - eight objects of the era of the Sassanid Empire, which existed in the III-VII centuries.

Hidden Christian settlements in Nagasaki (Japan) - a unique monument of cultural tradition, consisting of ten villages, a castle and a cathedral, created during the ban on Christianity in Japan.

Sansa, Buddhist mountain monasteries in Korea (Republic of Korea) are seven temples that contain open courtyards with lecture halls, pavilions and Buddha halls.

Note that the official delegation of Ukraine also participates in the 42nd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine on the official website.

The Ukrainian delegation held talks with Mrs. Ressler, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center, regarding the cultural heritage of the occupied Crimea, as a result of which a confirmation was received of the readiness to monitor the state of world heritage sites located in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, and fix violations by the Russian Federation of international law in protection of cultural heritage, provided that an appropriate level of security is ensured during the mission's stay in the temporarily occupied territory.

In addition to the plenary sessions of the 42nd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, representatives of the Ukrainian delegation held a number of consultative meetings with members of the World Heritage Committee and advisory bodies (ICOMOS and ICCROM). As a result of consultations by experts on the protection of the world cultural heritage, it was recommended to continue work on expanding the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Kyiv: Hagia Sophia with adjacent monastic structures and the Kiev Pechersk Lavra” by including St. Andrew's and St. Cyril's churches and adjusting the boundaries of the site's buffer zone.

Also, the participants of the session and the secretariat of the UNESCO World Heritage Center noted the progress made by the Ukrainian side in improving the legal framework through legislative consolidation legal status world heritage sites and regulation of relations in this area.

Recall that UNESCO is an international intergovernmental organization, specialized agency The UN, which, through the cooperation of member states in the field of education, science and culture, contributes to the eradication of illiteracy, the training of national personnel, the development national culture, protection of cultural monuments, etc.

In April, which makes it possible to place a monitoring mission and protect cultural monuments on the occupied peninsula.

The 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Manama (Bahrain) from June 24 to July 4 under the chairmanship of Sheikha Haya Rashid Al Khalifa, has ended. The next meeting of the Committee will be held in Baku (Azerbaijan), according to the official website of UNESCO.

During the 42nd session, the Committee inscribed 19 new properties on the World Heritage List (13 cultural, 3 natural and 3 mixed properties) and approved the expansion of one natural site. There are currently 1,092 properties on the World Heritage List in 167 countries.

The following sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List (in alphabetical order):

Cultural objects:

Inuit hunting grounds between sea and ice (Denmark)

Archaeological site Thimlich Ohinga (Kenya)

Göbekli Tepe(Turkey)

The palace city of Madina Az-Zahra (Spain)

The ancient city of Qalhat (Oman)

Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century (Italy)

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco complexes in Mumbai (India)

Naumburgsky Cathedral(Germany)

Al-Ahsa oasis, a changing cultural landscape (Saudi Arabia)

Border archaeological landscape of Hedeby and Danevirke (Germany)

Sansa, Buddhist mountain monasteries (Republic of Korea)

Sasanian archaeological landscape in Fars Province (Islamic Republic of Iran)

Hidden Christian objects in the Nagasaki region (Japan)

Natural objects:

Barberton Highlands, or Makhonjwa Mountains (South Africa)

Tectonic-volcanic formation of the Chen-de-Puy mountain range and the Liman fault (France)

Fanjingshan (China)

Mixed objects:

Tehuacan-Cuicatlán Valley: Mesoamerican habitat habitat (Mexico)

Chiribikete National Park - "Maloca of the Jaguar Clan" (Colombia)

Pimachiovin Aki (Canada)

Expansion of the natural object:

Bikin River Valley (Russian Federation)

During this session, the Committee also decided to include the object " National parks Turkana Lake (Kenya) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations for education, science and culture.

The goals declared by the organization are to promote the strengthening of peace and security through the expansion of cooperation between states and peoples in the field of education, science and culture; ensuring justice and observance of the rule of law, universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, for all peoples, without distinction of race, sex, language, orientation or religion.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites are natural or man-made sites, the priority tasks in relation to which, according to UNESCO, are their preservation and promotion due to their special cultural, historical or environmental significance.

As of 2017, there are 1,073 properties on the World Heritage List, of which 832 are cultural, 206 are natural and 35 are mixed in 165 member countries of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Each object has its own identification number.

The UNESCO World Heritage List for 2017 includes 28 items marked “Russian Federation” in the description, which is 2.7% of the total. 17 properties are listed by cultural criteria, with 6 of them recognized as a masterpiece of human genius (criterion i), and 11 properties are listed by natural criteria, with 4 of them recognized natural phenomena of exceptional beauty and aesthetic importance (criterion vii). In 2017, Russia ranked 9th in the world in terms of the total number of World Heritage sites, and in terms of the number natural objects- 4th (after China, USA and Australia).

Also on the World Heritage List is the ancient city of Chersonese Tauride and its choir, located on the territory of Crimea, which is marked “Ukraine” in the description. The Russian authorities consider it as a World Heritage Site on the territory of the Russian Federation; Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Eleonora Mitrofanova classified it among the Russian objects.

In addition, as of 2017, 18 sites (not counting the three re-nominated) in Russia are among the candidates for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

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