Its purpose is to bring back the people who keep the city's cultural heritage alive.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as a "national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage".
Bosnia's cultural heritage was systematically destroyed to wipe out all traces of a past shared by the different communities.
In the field of culture, the President-elect underlined Mexico's leading role in protecting and safeguarding the world's cultural heritage.
Surely the whiff of a Gauloise and a coup de rouge a shot of red wine are part of the nation's cultural heritage?
While this certainly could be a jackpot for the poverty-stricken country, it could also come at the price of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.
Ripping up vineyards, others said, is equivalent to destroying Europe's cultural heritage.
The area's cultural heritage has also suffered, she said, with two churches destroyed in the village of Cento and another church facade collapsing.
Under the proposal, bullfighting would be promoted by the authorities who would also push the UN to recognise it as part of Spain's cultural heritage.
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Nationally, the flood swept away parts of the country's cultural heritage.
Lukacs--Hungarian-born, proud of Europe's cultural heritage, a longtime resident of the U.S. (and another American Heritage contributor)--is an extraordinary historian, whose pathbreaking works have rightly won him acclaim.
Locked inside remains Bosnia's cultural heritage, including the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Already well-practiced in preserving Italy's sartorial and textile-making traditions, many Italian fashion houses appear ready to take on the job of protecting their country's cultural heritage and championing contemporary art.
For the dancers themselves and the many others who participate in the spirituality of the ritual as observers, it encourages pride in and respect for one's cultural heritage and identity.
In the eyes of Mr Amato, the minister has decided all on his own to lease out an essential part of Italy's cultural heritage, the BBC's Christian Fraser in Rome says.
They were donated by Afghan refugees, or sometimes by Europeans who had visited the country, in an attempt to preserve some of Afghanistan's cultural heritage during the years of the Taleban regime.
The attack on Timbuktu's cultural heritage is an attack against this history and the values it carries -- values of tolerance, exchange and living together, which lie at the heart of Islam.
Mexico City native Ricardo Rodriguez Saavedra is the director of De La Chinampa a tu Mesa, an organization devoted to restoring Xochimilco's cultural heritage by connecting the public with the chinampas' pesticide-free agricultural producers.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday will begin three days of meetings in Paris about a long-range plan for preserving the snow-capped valley's cultural heritage and the remains of the Buddhas, which overlooked a Buddhist monastery.
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"It honors a landmark 1893 speech given in Chicago by Swami Vivekananda, who introduced Hinduism to the U.S. So we will be working with various Indian museums over the next four years in the preservation, exhibition and promotion of India's cultural heritage, " he said.
The Creative Industries Support Programme (CISP) was established in Cambodia to improve the capacity of national institutions to preserve and develop Cambodia's cultural heritage and living arts, and to improve employment opportunities and income generation in the creative industries, with a special focus on empowering women and indigenous peoples.
"The Packard Campus and its employees will work hard to protect the Library's comprehensive collection and make these recordings accessible to the American people and this generous contribution by Universal Music will help preserve our nation's rich cultural heritage, " said Congressman Eric Cantor, Majority Leader for the 112thCongress and U.S. Representative from the 7thDistrict of Virginia, which includes Culpeper.
Over the 10 years of its existence, this treaty has become the foremost international legal instrument for the protection of the world's submerged cultural heritage.
The Director-General was also presented with the "Appeal of Tomorrow's Kyoto Cultural Heritage Platform" by its President Mr. Koichiro Matsuura -- a Platform that was established to ensure the long-term protection of cultural heritage in the city of Kyoto following the earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan in March 2011.
The Director-General's visit was concluded by her participation in the roundtable hosted by Tomorrow's Kyoto Cultural Heritage Platform, together with Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, the President of the Platform, Mr. Raitei Arima, Director of the Kyoto Buddhist Organization, Mr. Keiji Yamadan Governor of Kyoto Prefecture, Mr. Daisaku Kadokawa, Mayor of Kyoto, and Mr. Ghenshitsu Sen, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
The project was the work of the Google Cultural Institute, which seeks to unlock the world's cultural and historical heritage by promoting and preserving culture online.
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The criteria will set the a minimum standard for sustainability for the tourism business, covering the social and economic benefits of tourism as well as its impact on a destination's environment and cultural heritage.
The Director-General recalled the importance of the World Heritage Convention as one of the most important and deeply innovative international legal treaties forged to create bonds amongst peoples across the world through the mutual appreciation and preservation of the world's most outstanding cultural heritage, beyond domestic, political or territorial divides.
"It's very desirable for cultural heritage conservation because with a lot of other techniques like X-ray or ultraviolet, there is some molecular breakdown in the materials, " Dr Jackson told the meeting.
''Of course, that million-dollar price tag, as high as it is, doesn't begin to describe the true value of an ancient artefact that is part of the fabric of a country's natural history and cultural heritage.
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