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CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD
CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
Objectives
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To establish an effective system of collective protection of
the cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value,
organized on a permanent basis and in accordance with modern
scientific methods.
Summary of provisions
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(a) Each State party recognizes that the duty of
identification, protection, conservation and transmission to future
generations of the cultural and natural heritage belongs primarily
to that State (art. 4);
(b) Parties to integrate the protection of their heritage
into comprehensive planning programmes, to set up services for the
protection of their heritage, to develop scientific and technical
studies and to take necessary legal, scientific, administrative and
financial steps to protect their heritage (art. 5);
(c) Parties undertake to assist each other in the protection
of the cultural and natural heritage (art. 6);
(d) A World Heritage Committee established, to which each
party will submit an inventory of its national heritage and which
will publish a "World Heritage List" and a "List of World Heritage
in Danger" (arts. 8-11);
(e) A World Heritage Fund established, to be financed by the
parties and other interested bodies (art. 15);
(f) Any party may request assistance for property forming
part of its listed heritage, and such assistance may be granted by
the Fund in the form of studies, provision of experts, training of
staff, supply of equipment, loans or subsidies (arts. 19-22).
Membership
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Open for ratification or acceptance by all States members of
Unesco, and by other States upon invitation. Instruments of
ratification or acceptance to be deposited with the Director-General
of Unesco.
Date of adoption 23.11.1972
Place of adoption Paris, France
Date of entry into force 17.12.1975
Languages Arabic, English, French, Russian,
Spanish
Depositary Unesco
Participant Ratification
Acceptance (At)
Accession (Ac)
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Afghanistan 20. 3.1979
Albania 10. 7.1989
Algeria 24. 6.1974
Antigua and Barbuda 1.11.1983 (At)
Argentina 23. 8.1978 (At)
Australia 22. 8.1974
Bahrain 28. 5.1991
Bangladesh 3. 8.1983 (At)
Belarus 12.10.1988
Belize 6.11.1990
Benin 14. 6.1982
Bolivia 4.10.1976
Brazil 1. 9.1977 (At)
Bulgaria 7. 3.1974 (At)
Burkina Faso 2. 4.1987
Burundi 19. 5.1982
Cambodia 28.11.1991 (At)
Cameroon 7.12.1982
Canada 23. 7.1976 (At)
Cape Verde 28. 4.1988 (At)
Central African Republic 22.12.1980
Chile 20. 2.1980
China 12.12.1985
Colombia 24. 5.1983 (At)
Congo 10.12.1987
Costa Rica 23. 8.1977
Côte d'Ivoire 9. 1.1981
Cuba 24. 3.1981
Cyprus 14. 8.1975 (At)
Czech and Slovak (Federal
Republic of) 15.11.1990 (At)
Denmark 25. 7.1979
Dominican Republ 12. 2.1985
Ecuador 16. 6.1975 (At)
Egypt 7. 2.1974
El Salvador 8.10.1991 (At)
Ethiopia 6. 7.1977
Finland 4. 3.1987
France 27. 6.1975 (At)
Gabon 30.12.1986
Gambia 1. 7.1987
Fiji 21.11.1990
Germany 23. 8.1976
Ghana 4. 7.1975
Greece 17. 7.1981
Guatemala 16. 1.1979
Guinea 18. 3.1979
Guyana 20. 6.1977 (At)
Haiti 18. 1.1980
Holy See 7.10.1982 (Ac)
Honduras 8. 6.1979
Hungary 15. 7.1985 (At)
India 14.11.1977
Indonesia 6. 7.1989 (At)
Iran, Islamic
Republic of 26. 2.1975 (At)
Iraq 5. 3.1974 (At)
Ireland 16. 9.1991
Italy 23. 6.1978
Jamaica 14. 6.1983 (At)
Japan 19. 6.1992
Jordan 5. 5.1975
Kenya 5. 6.1991 (At)
Korea, Republic of 14. 9.1988 (At)
Lao People's Democratic
Republic 20. 3.1987
Lebanon 3. 2.1983
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 13.10.1978
Lithuania 30. 3.1992 (At)
Luxembourg 28. 9.1983
Madagascar 19. 7.1983
Malawi 5. 1.1982
Malaysia 7.12.1988
Maldives 22. 5.1986 (At)
Mali 5. 4.1977 (At)
Malta 14.11.1978 (At)
Mauritania 2. 3.1981
Mexico 23. 2.1984 (At)
Monaco 7.11.1978
Mongolia 2. 2.1990 (At)
Morocco 28.10.1975
Mozambique 27.11.1982
Nepal 20. 6.1978 (At)
New Zealand* 22.11.1984
Nicaragua 17.12.1979 (At)
Niger 23.12.1974 (At)
Nigeria 23.10.1974
Norway 12. 5.1977
Oman 6.10.1981 (At)
Pakistan 23. 7.1976
Panama 3. 3.1978
Paraguay 28. 4.1988
Peru 24. 2.1982
Philippines 19. 9.1985
Poland 29. 6.1976
Portugal 30. 9.1980
Qatar 12. 9.1984
Romania 16. 5.1990 (At)
Russian Federation 12.10.1988 (At)
San Marino 18.10.1991
Solomon Islands 10. 6.1992 (At)
St. Christopher and Nevis 10. 7.1986 (At)
St. Lucia 14.10.1991
Saudi Arabia 7. 8.1978 (At)
Senegal 13. 2.1976
Seychelles 9. 4.1980 (At)
Spain 4. 5.1982 (At)
Sri Lanka 6. 6.1980 (At)
Sudan 6. 6.1974
Sweden 22. 1.1985
Switzerland 17. 9.1975
Syrian Arab Republic 13. 8.1975 (At)
Thailand 17. 9.1987 (At)
Tunisia 10. 3.1975
Turkey 16. 3.1983
Uganda 20.11.1987 (At)
Ukraine 12.10.1988
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Northern Ireland 29. 5.1984
United Republic of Tanzania 2. 8.1977
United States of America 7.12.1973
Uruguay 9. 3.1989 (At)
Venezuela 30.10.1990 (At)
Viet Nam 19.10.1987 (At)
Yemen 25. 1.1984
Yugoslavia 26. 5.1975
Zaire 23. 9.1974
Zambia 4. 6.1984
Zimbabwe 16. 8.1982
* Extended to Cook Islands and Niue.
Convention Secretariat
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
7, place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris
1, rue Miollis, 75015 Paris
Telephone: (33-1) 45.68.10.00
Cables: UNESCO Paris
Telex: 204461 Paris/270602 Paris
Telefax: (33-1) 45.67.16.90
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