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Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
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UNESCO, Paris 24-29 June 1996
Chairperson: Ms. Maria Teresa Franco y Gonzalez Salas (Mexico) Rapporteur: Mr. Lambert Messan (Niger) Vice-Chairpersons: Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco