During the session, the Committee approved the inscription of 27 sites on the World Heritage List of UNESCO.
The ancient city of Aleppo has been inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1986.
Chad, Congo, Palau, Palestine and Qatar stand to enter the World Heritage List with their first inscriptions.
In total, the Committee will consider the inscription of 33 new sites in the World Heritage List.
This Convention established the World Heritage List which currently includes 890 properties considered to have Outstanding Universal Value.
Nominations from this list will then be put forward from 2012 for inclusion on the World Heritage List.
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The criteria for inscription in the World Heritage List are defined in the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value.
The Convention defines the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List.
Press releases will be issued during the session to announce additions and possible changes to the World Heritage List.
It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981 under the name, Historical Monuments of Thatta .
The Convention defines the responsible body, an Intergovernmental Committee, for taking decisions and evaluating requests for inscription on the World Heritage List.
An international safeguarding campaign began in 1985, the year the site joined the World Heritage List, and ran until 2001.
Their position on the World Heritage List ensures that they will remain a part of our global heritage for generations to come.
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Three of those countries - Burkina Faso, Cape Verde and Kyrgyzstan - have no properties inscribed on the World Heritage List to date.
With 31 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, Mexico is one of the top five countries in the world in this regard.
The 46 marine sites inscribed on the World Heritage List constitute more than one third of all marine protected areas on the planet.
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Becoming part of the World Heritage List, give sites new opportunities to reach out to and engage with the local community, particularly young people.
In his presentation, Havana Historian Eusebio Leal highlighted the importance of having included Old Havana and its fortress system on the World Heritage List.
The inscription of Rio de Janeiro in the World Heritage List of UNESCO was approved after 10 years of work on behalf of its candidacy.
They will also discuss sites on the World Heritage List in Danger, and a selection of those whose state of conservation is up for review.
Icomos is responsible for evaluating cultural properties nominated to the World Heritage List and submitting a recommendation to the annual meeting, it said on its website.
Reports on the state of conservation of 105 properties already inscribed on the World Heritage List will also be reviewed by the Committee during the session.
To date, the World Heritage List recognizes 878 properties of "outstanding universal value, " including 679 cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 States Parties.
Another aspect of Module 6 is the raising of awareness about natural areas in the Caribbean which could potentially be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986 for its outstanding prehistoric monuments dating from 3, 700 to 1, 600 BC.
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Problems including urban encroachment had warranted the inscription of the site on the World Heritage List in Danger in 2000, at the request of the Pakistani government.
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (Philippines) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1995 as an outstanding cultural landscape that evolved over two millennia.
The Committee contended that the development will extend the city centre significantly and alter the skyline and profile of the site inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004.
Palestine, which became a member of UNESCO in October 2011 and subsequently ratified the World Heritage Convention, will be presenting its first site for inscription on the World Heritage List.
The Director-General will also visit Um Er-Rasas, a World Heritage site inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004, and the iconic site of Petra, inscribed on the List in 1985.
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