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World Heritage 25 COM World Heritage 25 COM Distribution limited WHC-01/CONF.208/3 Paris, 17 August 2001 Original : English/French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Twenty-fifth session Helsinki, Finland 11 - 16 December 2001 Report of the Rapporteur on the twenty-fifth session of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee (Paris, 25 - 30 June 2001) World Heritage 25 BUR Distribution limited WHC-2001/CONF.205/10 Paris, 17 August 2001 Original : English/French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE BUREAU OF THE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Twenty-fifth session Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, Room X 25 –30 June 2001 REPORT OF THE RAPPORTEUR TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Opening Session 1 Annexes II. Adoption of the Agenda and the Timetable 5 I List of Participants 69 III. Report on the Activities Undertaken by the II. Speech of the representative of the Secretariat since the Twenty-Fourth Session Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Mounir of the Committee 6 Bouchenaki, Assistant Director-General for Culture 83 IV. Preparation of the Thirteenth General Assembly of States Parties (October 2001) 11 III. Kakadu National Park (Australia) – Letter concerning the Kakadu Region Social V. State of Conservation of Properties inscribed Impact Study (KRSIS) 85 on the List of World Heritage in Danger and on the World Heritage List 12 IV. Kakadu National Park (Australia) – Letter from Yvonne Margarula, Mirrar Senior VI. Information on Tentative Lists and Traditional Owner, Chairperson Gundjehmi Examination of Nominations of Cultural and Aboriginal Corporation 87 Natural Properties to the List of World Heritage in Danger and the World Heritage V. Kakadu National Park (Australia) – Letter List 45 from the Secretary Environment Australia, Department of the Environment and VII. Requests for International Assistance 62 Heritage 89 VIII. Date, Place and Provisional Agenda of the VI. Birkenau, extract from the nomination Twenty-Fifth Extraordinary Session of the dossier submitted by the Government of Bureau (7-8 December 2001, Helsinki, Poland on 6 June 1978 91 Finland) 67 VII. Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn (Switzerland) IX. Date, Place and Provisional Agenda of the – Letter from the Ambassador of Italy to Twenty-Fifth Session of the Committee (11- UNESCO to the Chairperson of the World 16 December 2001, Helsinki, Finland) 67 Heritage Committee 93 X. Other Business 67 VIII. Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn (Switzerland) – Letter from the Ambassador of XI. Adoption of the Report 67 Switzerland to UNESCO to the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee 95 XII. Closure of the Session 67 IX. Proposal for the Bing Lucas Annual World Heritage Scholarship and World Heritage Managers Award, presented by IUCN 97 X. Provisional Agenda of the Twenty-fifth Extraordinary Session of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee (Helsinki, Finland, 7-8 December 2001) 99 XI. Provisional Agenda of the Twenty-fifth Session of the World Heritage Committee (Helsinki, Finland, 11-16 December 2001) 101 XII. Letter from the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee concerning a proposal for additional voluntary contributions to the World Heritage Fund 103 Report of the Rapporteur WHC-2001/CONF.205/10, p: i I. OPENING SESSION Member States (…) to pursue their efforts to ensure the full application of the principles of the Convention for the I.1 The twenty-fifth session of the Bureau of the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed World Heritage Committee was held at UNESCO Conflict (The Hague, 1954), the Convention on the Means Headquarters in Paris, France, from 25 to 30 June 2001. It of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and was attended by the following members of the Bureau: Mr Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970) and the Peter King (Australia) as Chairperson of the Committee, Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Mr Dawson Munjeri (Zimbabwe) as the Rapporteur and Natural Heritage (1972)”. Mr Bouchenaki’s speech is Canada, Ecuador, Finland, Morocco and Thailand as Vice- included as Annex II of this report. The Chairperson Chairpersons. thanked Mr Bouchenaki on behalf of the Bureau members. I.2 The following States Parties to the World I.6 At the invitation of the Chairperson, the Special Heritage Convention who are not members of the Bureau, Envoy of the Director-General of UNESCO, Ambassador were represented as observers: Albania, Argentina, Pierre Lafrance informed the Bureau of his mission to Austria, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Kabul, Khandahar and Islamabad in March 2001 China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, undertaken at the request of the Director-General. The Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El thrust of his presentation was on the purpose of the Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, mission and why the objectives were not achieved. He Honduras, Hungary, India, Iraq, Iran (Islamic Republic narrated the events leading to the fateful destruction of the of), Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Buddhas on 12 March 2001. Discussions with Lithuania, Madagascar, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, New representatives of the Taliban forces, who control the Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, major part of Afghanistan, had been held. Referring to the Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Declaration for the Protection of Afghan Cultural Heritage Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Slovakia, signed by the Supreme Leader of the Taliban in 1999 South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, specifically referring to the Bamyan statues, and Tunisia, Turkey, United Republic of Tanzania, United underlining the unanimous opinion of the leaders of Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela Islamic theology against such iconoclastic acts, Mr and Yemen. The Permanent Observer Mission of Lafrance described in detail the efforts made to convince Palestine to UNESCO and the United Arab Emirates the Taliban leaders to reverse their decision to destroy the attended the session as observers. The complete List of ancient statues of Bamyan and Afghan’s rich pre-Islamic Participants is attached as Annex I of the Report. cultural heritage. In the last analysis the problem was that the Taliban viewed the issue as theological "creation of a 1.3 Representatives of the Advisory Bodies to the creature : to create a creature is a sin" ran the argument. Committee: the International Centre for Study of the The context was put in "licit and illicit" terms. Some Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property proposals from Iran and Japan to negotiate the (ICCROM), the International Council on Monuments and safeguarding of this heritage which had been briskly Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union rejected by the Taliban leaders were highlighted. So there (IUCN) attended the session. was determination by the Taliban leaders to destroy the cultural heritage representing the ancient civilizations of I.4 The Chairperson, Mr Peter King, opened the the South and Central Asian Region. In spite of these session by welcoming the members of the Bureau, the efforts made by the international community to reverse the Advisory Bodies, observers, the members of the press and decision and regardless of the support from some all participants to the meeting. He recalled that due to the individuals within the Taliban forces, the statues of recent events relating to the wilful destruction of heritage Bamyan and the Kabul Museum collection were destroyed in Afghanistan, it was decided to extend the opening on 12 March 2001. In Mr Lafrance's words, "We were session to include a discussion on this issue. dealing with a force which could not be swayed by any argument." I.5 The Chairperson then invited the Representative of the Director-General, Mr Mounir Bouchenaki, Assistant I.7 The advice of the Ulemas and other religious Director-General for Culture, to deliver his opening speech leaders from Egypt, Pakistan and the Organisation of to the Bureau. In his introduction, Mr Bouchenaki drew Islamic States, were all ignored, as was the intervention of the attention of the Bureau to an earthquake that hit the site Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations. of Arequipa, in Peru, on 24 June 2001 and informed the Bureau that the Secretariat had already been in contact I.8 Urging the Bureau not to "throw in the towel", the with the national authorities. He then recalled the actions Bureau’s attention was drawn to the continued efforts taken by UNESCO concerning the destruction of the being made by UNESCO, various Governments and Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan. Regarding this issue, NGO’s, to maintain and strengthen dialogue with the described by the Director-General of UNESCO as a Taliban forces to protect what remains of Afghan’s “crime against culture”, he informed the Bureau that a cultural heritage. Mr Lafrance underlined the importance resolution had been adopted by the Executive Board of of persistent efforts at national and international levels to UNESCO at its 161st session concerning the protection of promote tolerance for world heritage. The need for the the cultural heritage of Afghanistan. That decision “invites World Heritage Committee to take appropriate actions to Report of the Rapporteur WHC-2001/CONF.205/10, p: 1
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