UNESCO World Heritage Committee identifies 12 new sites in its 40th session in Istanbul

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has identified 12 new sites for the World Heritage List in its 40th session at Istanbul - the session had to be cut short due to the unrest that erupted in Turkey. With this, the number of sites added in the current session goes up to 21 and this finally adds up to a total of 1,052 sites in 165 countries.
The breakdown of these 21 newly added sites are - 12 cultural sites, six natural and three mixed ones.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 18 July 2016.

The session also discussed the state of conservation of 155 properties - five of these in Libya have been inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger along with one in Uzbekistan and another in Mali. Additionally, one site in Georgia was removed from the list of endangered sites, while the site of Nan Madol, or the Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia, was simultaneously inscribed on the World Heritage List and on the List in Danger.
The 40th session had started on July 10 and was cut short by four days due to the attempted coup in Turkey. The unfinished would be taken up at a separate meeting slated to be held in Paris later. The 41st session is scheduled for July 2017 in Krakow, Poland.


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