World Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of four sites

                   
xinhuanet.com     Jul 10, 2008            

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The World Heritage Committee has asked that "reinforced monitoring" be applied to four properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The four sites are: Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (France), Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (Peru), Timbuktu (Mali) and Samark and-Crossroads of Cultures (Uzbekistan), according to a press release issued by the 32nd session of the committee in Canadian Quebec City on Thursday. Reinforced monitoring continues to be applied for seven other sites for which it was requested already in 2007. All seven are on the List of World Heritage in Danger: Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany), Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, and five World Heritage sites of Democratic Republic of the Congo. The committee made no changes to the List of World Heritage in Danger which still... [read full story]                    

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france24.com     Jul 10, 2008          

The sites of Bordeaux's Port of the Moon, Machu Picchu, Timbuktu and Samarkand, listed as World Heritage sites, have been put under "reinforced monitoring", a mechanism that will increase missions to verify and survey...                    

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World Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of four sites

mathaba.net     Jul 11, 2008          

The World Heritage Committee has asked that ''reinforced monitoring'' be applied to four properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List. QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The four sites are: Bordeaux, Port of the Moon...                    

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Protecting the Wonders of the World

time.com     Jul 11, 2008          

Now wooden churches in Slovakia, Weimar-era housing projects in Berlin, and Armenian monasteries in Iran have been granted the same hallowed status as the Statue of Liberty, Stonehenge, and the Temple of Angkor Wat. But now...                    

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Protecting the Wonders of the World

hnn.us     Jul 12, 2008          

Source: Time (7-11-08)At its annual meeting in Quebec City this week, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee added another 27 sites to its already burgeoning list of places of "outstanding universal value." Now wooden churches in...                    

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World Heritage Committee inscribes 27 of 43 sites to UNESCO's list

mathaba.net     Jul 9, 2008          

QUEBEC CITY, Canada, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The World Heritage Committee, finished inscribing new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List on Tuesday with the addition of 27 cultural and natural sites. During Tuesday's morning...                    

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