31st Session of the World Heritage Committee: UNESCO Culture Sector

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31st Session of the World Heritage Committee

The annual meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of representatives from 21 States Parties to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, will meet in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Committee’s main functions are to:

Identify, on the basis of nominations submitted by States Parties, cultural and natural properties of outstanding universal value to be protected under the Convention and to include those properties on the World Heritage List;
Monitor the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, in liaison with the States Parties; decide which properties included in the World Heritage List are to be inscribed on or removed from the List of World
Heritage in Danger; and decide whether a property may be deleted from the World Heritage List; and
Examine requests for international assistance from the World Heritage Fund.

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World Heritage Committee 2007

31st session (2007)

Start Date	23 Jun 2007

End Date	02 Jul 2007

Event Type	Meeting of experts
Event Location	Christchurch, New Zealand
Organizer	UNESCO


Email	rachel@conference.co.nz

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