BAKU (AZERBAIJAN), July 1 (TNA) – The World Heritage
Committee has opened its annual meeting as Thailand has two heritage entries
unofficially listed at the World Heritage Centre.
The 43rd Session of the World Heritage Committee was set at
the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, from June 30 to
July 10.
This year the committee will consider the nomination of 35
heritage sites comprising 28 cultural sites, five natural sites and two
cultural-natural sites. Besides, 28 sites were proposed to be in the
committee’s tentative list.
Representing Thailand, Raweewon Bhuridej, secretary-general
of the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, said
that the ensemble of temple ruins namely Prasat Phanom Rung, Prasat Muang Tam
and Prasat Plai Bat in Buri Ram province and Sri Thep historical park in
Phetchburi province were included in the UNESCO’s tentative world heritage list
pending approval from 21 member states of the World Heritage Convention on July
5.
Besides, Thailand would nominate the Kaeng Krachan forest
complex to the tentative list on July 5 or 6, she said.
Azerbaijan proposed the listing of its Atashgah Temple State
or the Fire Temple of Baku which features a 4,000-year-old natural eternal
flame. (TNA)
