UNESCO declares 34 new world heritage sites , WHC calls for international commitment to protect sites
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced 34 newly inscribed sites treasured for their outstanding universal value.
The extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee called for the full engagement of governments, international organizations, civil society organizations, private sector and other key stakeholders to protect the World Heritage sites and protect them against threats to cultural and natural heritage sites in particular when exposed to armed conflicts, natural calamities or illicit trafficking of cultural and natural heritage assets.
The WHC session urged wider participation of academics, civil society and communities to significantly strengthen links between heritage conservation and social and economic development activities, with an aim to protect World Heritage sites for the benefits of all in line with the 2015 World Heritage Sustainable Development Policy.
The extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee was organized by UNESCO in cooperation with the host country, the People’s Republic of China in Fuzhou recently.
The session was presided over from Fuzhou by Tian Xuejun, Vice Minister of Education and Chairperson of the National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO, Chairperson of the extended 44th session of World Heritage Committee.
Among the 34 new inscribed properties, 5 are natural and 29 cultural properties of different parts of the world.
New Inscribed Properties (2021) –
Cultural properties :
Arslantepe Mound , Turkey
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex , Peru
Colonies of Benevolence , Belgium, Netherlands
Cordouan Lighthouse , France
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment) ,Austria, Germany, Slovakia
Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple, Telangana , India
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt , Germany
Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles , Italy
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences , Spain
Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China , China
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape , Romania
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx , Brazil
The Great Spa Towns of Europe – Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church of Atlántida , Uruguay
Trans-Iranian Railway , Iran
Ḥimā Cultural Area , Saudi Arabia
New Inscribed Properties Natural properties
Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island , Japan
Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands , Georgia
Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats , Republic of Korea
Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex , Thailand
August 2021
Photo : Aerial photo shows Anping Bridge in Anhai Town of Quanzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province. China’s “Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China” was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List as a cultural site , bringing the total number of the country’s UNESCO World Heritage sites to 56. Quanzhou, a coastal city in China’s Fujian Province, was a global maritime trade center back in the Song and Yuan dynasties. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
