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20th Technical Session of ICC-Angkor Meeting
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| 27-07-2011 1:45 am The objectives of this ICC-Angkor technical session were to discuss the progress of preservation and development works in Angkor, assess the work carried out during the last 6 months, present new projects and bring assistance if the need arises. The meeting served to provide a forum to many countries and institutions to present and review their assistance to Angkor, World Heritage Site. |
 After Angkor was inscribed on the World Heritage list on December 14, 1992, an International Co-Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor (ICC) was established. The creation of this ICC was one of the conditions given by the World Heritage Committee to accept the Angkor Site on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Since that time, the ICC has convened regularly twice a year, thus consistently following up on all operations being carried out on the site. It is the international mechanism for coordination of assistances to be extended by different countries and organizations. It ensures the consistency of the different projects, defines, when necessary financial standards and calls the attention of the concerned parties when required.
This technical session was co-chaired by French Counselor of Cooperation and Cultural Affairs (Embassy of France in Cambodia) and the Minister (Embassy of Japan in Cambodia). UNESCO provides the services of a Standing Secretariat.
The agenda of this technical session was divided in three sections: Conservation, research and archaeology, and sustainable development. The focus of the first session concerned the works currently implemented at Bayon, Ta Prohm, Angkor Wat, Phnom Bakeng, Preah Khan,,Srah Srang, and Eastern Mebon. Following a special request of His Majesty the King, the ad hoc experts Group has made a special assessment of Preah Khan of Kompong Svay and provided several specific recommendations to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. More generally, the focus was on the treatment of the epidermis of materials, the punctual restitution of statuary elements, and the illicit trafficking of Khmer art objects. The archaeology session mainly focused on the present and future works at Koh Ker and Phnom Kulen, and the excavation works in the airport zone. Finally, the sustainable development session presented the Heritage Management Framework, the exhaustive project “Angkor and Water”, the Phnom Bakeng site management workshop and the training of an APSARA National Authority team on a methodology of urban heritage inventory.
The tribute that the Cambodian authorities and ICC-Angkor co-chairs are prompted to pay each year to the teams that work in the field is an indication of the international and multilateral dimension of the work being done at Angkor.
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UNESCO Phnom Penh
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