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World Heritage 38 COM WHC-14/38.COM.INF.16 Original: English/French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Thirty-eighth session Doha, Qatar 15-25 June 2014 SUMMARY RECORDS RESUME DES INTERVENTIONS 1 Table of content OPENING SESSION 1. Opening session 2. Admission of Observers 3. Adoption of the Agenda and the Timetable 3A. Adoption of the Agenda 3B. Adoption of the Timetable REPORTS 4. Report of the Rapporteur of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee (Phnom Penh, 2013) 5. Reports of the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies 5A. Report of the World Heritage Centre on its activities and the implementation of the World Heritage Committee’s decisions 5B. Reports of the Advisory Bodies 5C. Follow-up to the Director-General’s meeting on “The World Heritage Convention: Thinking Ahead” (UNESCO HQs, 2-3 October 2012) 5D. World Heritage Convention and Sustainable Development 5E. Report on the World Heritage Thematic Programmes 5F. Follow-up to the Audit of the Working Methods of Cultural Conventions and to the Evaluation of UNESCO’s Standard-Setting Work of the Culture Sector 6. Follow-up to the World Heritage Capacity-building Strategy and Progress report on the World Heritage-related Category 2 Centres EXAMINATION OF THE STATE OF CONSERVATION 7. State of Conservation of World Heritage properties 7A. State of conservation of the World Heritage properties inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger 7B. State of conservation of World Heritage properties inscribed on the World Heritage List 2 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST AND OF THE LIST OF WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER 8. Establishment of the World Heritage List and of the List of World Heritage in Danger: 8A. Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2014 8B. Nominations to the World Heritage List 8C. Update of the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger 8D. Clarifications of Property Boundaries and Areas by States Parties in response to the Retrospective Inventory 8E. Review and Approval of Retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR A REPRESENTATIVE, BALANCED AND CREDIBLE WORLD HERITAGE LIST 9. Global Strategy for a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List 9A. Progress report on the Upstream Processes 9B. Reflections on processes for mixed nominations 9C. Recommendations of the evaluation of the Global Strategy and the PACT initiative: Follow-up to Resolution 19 GA 9. PERIODIC REPORTS 10. Periodic Reports 10A. Final report on the results of the second cycle of the Periodic Reporting exercise for North America and Progress report for the Europe region 10B. Progress report on Periodic Reporting in all other regions FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES 11. International Assistance 12. Presentation of the final accounts of the World Heritage Fund for 2012- 2013, the interim financial statement and the state of implementation of the 2014-2015 budget 3 OTHER BUSINESS 13. Other Business CLOSING SESSION 14. Election of the Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons and Rapporteur of the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee (2015) 15. Provisional Agenda of the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee (2015) 16. Adoption of Decisions 17. Closing ceremony 4 SUNDAY, 15 JUNE 2014 OPENING OF THE SESSION 7 p.m – 8 p.m ITEM 1 OPENING OF THE SESSION Document: WHC-14/38.COM/INF.2 An Opening Ceremony of the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee was organized at the Qatar National Convention Centre on Sunday 15 June 2014 in Doha, Qatar. The 21 Members of the World Heritage Committee were present: Algeria, Colombia, Croatia, Finland, Germany, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Senegal, Serbia, Turkey, Viet Nam. The following 108 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, which are not members of the Committee, were represented as Observers: Andorra; Angola; Argentina; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Barbados; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bolivia (Plurinational State of); Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Brunei Darussalam; Bulgaria; Côte d’Ivoire; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Chad; Chile; China; Congo; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; France; Georgia; Greece; Guyana; Holy See; Hungary; Indonesia; Iran (Islamic Republic of); Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kenya; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Lithuania; Macao; Madagascar; Mali; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Mongolia; Montenegro; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; Niger; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Palau; Palestine; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Republic of Korea; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Slovakia; Solomon Islands; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Tanzania, (United Republic of) Thailand; The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Togo; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; United States of America; Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of); Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe. Representatives of the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee, namely the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) also attended the session. 5 Speeches were delivered by the following dignitaries: His Excellency Mr Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa AL THANI, Prime Minister of Qatar Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa AL THANI, Chairperson of the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee His Excellency Mr HAO Ping, President of the General Conference of UNESCO His Excellency, Mr Mohamed Sameh AMR, Chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO Mr Francesco BANDARIN, UNESCO Assistant-Director General for Culture A cultural performance and a reception followed. 6 FIRST DAY – Monday, 16 June 2014 FIRST MEETING 9.00 a.m. –1 p.m. Chairperson : Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani (Qatar) ITEM 2 ADMISSION OF OBSERVERS Document: WHC-14/38.COM.2 WHC-14/38.COM.INF.2 Decision: 38 COM 2 Before presenting Item 2 of the agenda, the Chairperson announced that the session would be live streamed, as per Decision 35 COM 12 B and that the meeting would also be open to accredited journalists. The Chairperson thanked Qatar, Spain and the Russian Federation for the financial support provided for Arabic, Spanish and Russian interpretation. She underlined that however no interpretation from others languages will be provided into Spanish or Russian. She pointed out that Arabic, Spanish and Russian speaking Delegations should indicate in their first intervention in which language (English or French) they would wish to be recorded. The Draft Decision 38 COM 2 was adopted. The Chairperson closed Item 2 of the Agenda. ITEM 3 ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND TIMETABLE 3A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA 3B. ADOPTION OF THE TIMETABLE Document: WHC-14/38.COM/3A.Rev WHC-14/38.COM/INF.3A.Rev WHC-14/38.COM/3B.Rev Decisions: 38 COM 3A 38 COM 3B The Chairperson gave the floor to the Director of the World Heritage Centre to introduce documents 3ARev and 3B.Rev and mentioned that these documents should be read in conjunction with Document INF.3A.Rev, which is the Provisional list of documents of the session. The Director of the World Heritage Centre informed that the agenda adopted at the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee had been amended and that new 7 items were added, namely items 5F and 9C concerning the follow-up to the Audit of the Working Methods of Cultural Conventions and to the Evaluation of UNESCO’s Standard-Setting Work of the Culture Sector. He also informed that the Bureau meetings would take place from 8.30 to 9 am, except on Friday 20 June where it was foreseen from 2.30 to 3 pm. The plenary session would be held from 9 am until 1 pm and from 3 pm until 7 pm and the final adoption of the Decisions report as well as the closing ceremony are foreseen for the 25 of June. The Chairperson announced that in accordance with Rule 22 of the Rules of Procedure, the time limit for interventions of Committee members would be 3 minutes and for observers 2 minutes. She asked the Committee Members to hand in their amendments to Draft Decisions in writing to the Secretariat. The Draft Decisions 38 COM 3A and 38 COM 3B were adopted. The Chairperson closed Item 3 of the Agenda. ITEM 4 REPORT OF THE RAPPORTEUR OF THE 36th SESSION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE (ST PETERSBURG, 2012) No document La Présidente informe les membres du Comité que Madame Jasna ZRNOVIC Rapporteur de la 37e session du Comité du patrimoine mondial (Phnom Penh, 2013), n’a pu, malheureusement, être présente à Doha pour la 38e session du Comité mais que la présentation de son Rapport a pu être enregistrée. Elle invite les membres du Comité à regarder cette présentation. Dans son intervention enregistrée, Madame ZRNOVIC remercie les membres du Comité pour leur soutien apporté dans le cadre de sa fonction de Rapporteur de la 37eme session et plus particulièrement Son Excellence Dr SOK AN, Président de la 37eme session du Comité, et les autorités cambodgiennes pour leur chaleureux accueil. Le Rapporteur souligne la participation importante à la 37eme session du Comité, suivie par plus de 1400 personnes provenant de 121 pays, au cours de laquelle 234 décisions ont été prises. Elle rappelle que le Comité a insisté sur le besoin urgent de s’occuper du patrimoine en danger, notamment au Mali et en République Centre Africaine. Mme Zrnovic note que le Comité a adopté la stratégie révisée pour le développement de partenariats avec le secteur privé.