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World Heritage 42 COM WHC/18/42.COM/8A Paris, 14 May 2018 Original: English UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Forty-second session Manama, Bahrain 24 June - 4 July 2018 Item 8 of the Provisional Agenda: 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 2018, in conformity with the Operational Guidelines SUMMARY This document presents the Tentative Lists of all States Parties submitted in conformity with the Operational Guidelines as of 15 April 2018. • Annex 1 presents a full list of States Parties indicating the date of the most recent Tentative List submission. • Annex 2 presents new Tentative Lists (or additions to Tentative Lists) submitted by States Parties since 16 April 2017. • Annex 3 presents a list of all sites included in the Tentative Lists of the States Parties to the Convention, in alphabetical order. Draft Decision: 42 COM 8A, see Point II I. EXAMINATION OF TENTATIVE LISTS 1. The World Heritage Convention provides that each State Party to the Convention shall submit to the World Heritage Committee an inventory of the cultural and natural sites situated within its territory, which it considers suitable for inscription on the World Heritage List, and which it intends to nominate during the following five to ten years. Over the years, the Committee has repeatedly confirmed the importance of these Lists, also known as Tentative Lists, for planning purposes, comparative analyses of nominations and for facilitating the undertaking of global and thematic studies. Since 2000, inclusion on the Tentative List is mandatory for all sites that the State Party intends to nominate for inscription on the World Heritage List. 2. According to Paragraph 65 of the Operational Guidelines, States Parties shall submit Tentative Lists at least one year prior to the submission of any nomination. The submission format for national sites is presented in Annex 2A of the Operational Guidelines. The submission format for all transnational and transboundary sites is presented in Annex 2B of the Operational Guidelines. The Tentative List submission for such transnational and transboundary sites will be valid only after the submission by all the States Parties involved. 3. When developing Tentative Lists, States Parties should take into account the Global Strategy, comparative studies and the Advisory Bodies’ gap analysis, involve local communities and indigenous peoples, and include public consultations in the process. The revision and update of Tentative Lists should identify types of properties suitable for nomination on (sub)regional level through regional harmonization. The size of a Tentative List should take into account the 10-year cycle recommended by the Operational Guidelines (Paragraph 65). The resource manual Preparing World Heritage Nominations (https://whc.unesco.org/en/preparing-world-heritage-nominations/) may also prove useful for the preparation of Tentative Lists. 4. Furthermore, Paragraph 71 of the Operational Guidelines encourages States Parties to seek, as early as possible, upstream advice during the development and revision of their Tentative Lists. The Upstream Process, as defined in the Operational Guidelines (footnote to Para. 122) enables the Advisory Bodies and the World Heritage Centre to provide guidance directly to States Parties throughout the whole process leading up to the preparation of a possible nomination. In order to be receivable, a request for Upstream Process advice shall be submitted through the official format (Decision 41 COM 9A). 5. At its 41st session (Krakow, 2017), Decision 41 COM 11, the Committee decided to amend Paragraph 68 of the Operational Guidelines and introduced the following disclaimer: “…The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate harmonization of Tentative Lists at regional and thematic levels. The sole responsibility for the content of each Tentative List lies with the State Party concerned. The publication of the Tentative Lists does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the World Heritage Centre or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries.” 6. As of 15 April 2018, of the 193 States Parties to the Convention, 183 have submitted Tentative Lists in accordance with the requirements specified in the Operational Guidelines. All sites nominated for examination at the present session (see Document Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2018 WHC/18/42.COM/8A p. 1 WHC/18/42.COM/8B) were included in the Tentative Lists of the States Parties concerned one year prior the submission of the nomination. 7. In conformity with Decision 27 COM 8A, Paragraph 4, the Tentative Lists submissions received since 16 April 2017 are presented in Annex 2 of this document. Since 16 April 2017, 36 States Parties have submitted new Tentative Lists or have modified their existing Lists, which met all the requirements of Paragraph 68 of the Operational Guidelines. The number of sites added to existing Tentative Lists is 88. 8. In conformity with Paragraph 68 of the Operational Guidelines, inscribed properties and nominated sites which the Committee decides not to inscribe on the World Heritage List are removed from the Tentative Lists of States Parties. 9. In conformity with Paragraph 69 the Operational Guidelines, the complete Tentative Lists of all States Parties are accessible to the public at the following web address of the World Heritage Centre: https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists. 10. States Parties, which have not yet done so, are invited to submit Tentative Lists in accordance with the Operational Guidelines. II. DRAFT DECISION Draft Decision: 42 COM 8A The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC/18/42.COM/8A, 2. Stressing the importance of the process of revision and updating of Tentative Lists, as a tool for regional harmonisation of the World Heritage List and long-term planning of its development; 3. Encourages States Parties to seek as early as possible upstream advice from the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies during the development or revision of their Tentative Lists as appropriate; 4. Takes note of the Tentative Lists presented in Annexes 2 and 3 of this document. Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2018 WHC/18/42.COM/8A p. 2 Content of the Annexes Annex 1 List of States Parties indicating the page 4 date of the most recent Tentative List submission Annex 2 New Tentative Lists and additions to page 6 Tentative Lists submitted since 16 April 2017 Annex 3 World Heritage Tentative Lists by page 9 region: Africa page 9 Arab States page 12 Asia and the Pacific page 13 Europe and North America page 18 Latin America and the Caribbean page 24 Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2018 WHC/18/42.COM/8A p. 3 Annex 1 List of States Parties indicating the date of the most recent Tentative List submission Absence of a date indicates that the State Party has not yet submitted a Tentative List in conformity with the requirements of the Operational Guidelines. State Party Last Revision Bahrain 29/05/2008 Egypt 03/09/2015 Africa Iraq 20/02/2017 Angola 09/05/2017 Jordan 29/03/2018 Benin 22/01/2013 Kuwait 17/05/2017 Botswana 27/10/2010 Lebanon 01/07/1996 Burkina Faso 24/01/2012 Libya Burundi 09/05/2007 Mauritania 14/06/2001 Cabo Verde 15/03/2016 Morocco 22/07/2016 Cameroon 02/02/2018 Oman 24/09/2014 Central African Republic 11/04/2006 Palestine 25/04/2016 Chad 21/07/2005 Qatar 18/03/2008 Comoros 31/01/2007 Saudi Arabia 08/04/2015 Congo 12/06/2008 Sudan 28/09/2004 Côte d'Ivoire 29/11/2006 Syrian Arab Republic 23/06/2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo 11/11/1997 Tunisia 29/09/2017 Djibouti 05/01/2015 United Arab Emirates 09/03/2018 Equatorial Guinea Yemen 08/07/2002 Eritrea 02/03/2011 Total 19 18 Ethiopia 02/02/2018 Gabon 27/01/2009 Asia and the Pacific Gambia (the) 29/04/2015 Afghanistan 02/11/2009 Ghana 17/01/2000 Australia 20/01/2017 Guinea 29/03/2001 Bangladesh 17/02/1999 Guinea-Bissau 13/10/2006 Bhutan 08/03/2012 Kenya 12/02/2010 Brunei Darussalam Lesotho 08/10/2008 Cambodia 01/09/1992 Liberia 30/03/2017 China 05/09/2017 Madagascar 15/02/2018 Cook Islands Malawi 01/02/2011 Democratic People's Republic of 25/05/2000 Mali 08/01/2018 Korea Mauritius 17/05/2006 Fiji 26/10/1999 Mozambique 20/08/2008 India 11/03/2016 Namibia 18/03/2016 Indonesia 14/03/2017 Niger 26/06/2006 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 02/02/2017 Nigeria 30/01/2017 Japan 01/02/2016 Rwanda 15/06/2012 Kazakhstan 10/06/2016 Sao Tome and Principe Kiribati 07/03/2007 Senegal 18/11/2005 Kyrgyzstan 19/02/2010 Seychelles 01/02/2013 Lao People's Democratic Republic 03/08/2016 Sierra Leone 01/06/2012 Malaysia 23/02/2017 South Africa 15/04/2015 Maldives 19/02/2013 South Sudan 04/10/2017 Marshall Islands 24/10/2005 Swaziland 31/12/2008 Micronesia (Federated States of) 03/01/2012 Togo 08/01/2002 Mongolia 23/11/2015 Uganda 30/01/2007 Myanmar 25/02/2014 United Republic of Tanzania 28/01/2009 Nepal 30/01/2008 Zambia 10/03/2009 New Zealand 30/03/2007 Zimbabwe 26/06/1997 Niue Total 46 44 Pakistan 12/04/2016 Palau 06/11/2007 Papua New Guinea 06/06/2006 Arab States Algeria 30/12/2002 Philippines 20/03/2015 Republic of Korea 24/01/2017 Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2018 WHC/18/42.COM/8A p.