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World Heritage 42 COM WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add Paris, 28 May 2018 Original: English / French 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 7B of the Provisional Agenda: State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List SUMMARY This document contains information on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. The World Heritage Committee is requested to review the reports on the state of conservation of properties contained in this document. The full reports of Reactive Monitoring missions requested by the World Heritage Committee are available at the following Web address in their original language: http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/42COM/documents All previous state of conservation reports are available through the World Heritage State of conservation Information System at the following Web address: http://whc.unesco.org/en/soc Decision required: The World Heritage Committee may wish to adopt the draft Decision presented at the end of each state of conservation report. Table of content I. REPORTS ON THE STATE OF CONSERVATION OF PROPERTIES INSCRIBED ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST ....................................................................................................................... 4 CULTURAL PROPERTIES ..................................................................................................................... 4 ASIA-PACIFIC ..................................................................................................................................... 4 1. Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains (China) (C 705) .................................... 4 2. Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa (China) (C 707ter) ......................................... 7 5. Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an – Tian-shan Corridor (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) (C 1442) ............................................................................................................. 10 10. Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan) (C 1484) .................................................................................................................... 14 14. Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore (Pakistan) (C 171) .................................................... 14 15. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (Philippines) (C 722) .......................................... 14 17. Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications (Sri Lanka) (C 451) .................................................. 16 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 20 21. Historic Centre of Prague (Czechia) (C 616bis) .................................................................... 20 24. Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (Georgia) (C 708bis) ....................................................... 23 26. Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor (Montenegro) (C 125ter) .............................. 26 28. Kizhi Pogost (Russian Federation) (C 544) ........................................................................... 29 29. Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands (Russian Federation) .................. 32 31. Historic Areas of Istanbul (Turkey) (C 356bis) ....................................................................... 32 32. Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (C 373bis) ................................................................................................................. 35 AFRICA .............................................................................................................................................. 39 45. Lamu Old Town (Kenya) (C 1055) ......................................................................................... 39 47. Island of Mozambique (Mozambique) (C 599) ....................................................................... 42 48. Sukur Cultural Landscape (Nigeria) (C 938) .......................................................................... 46 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................. 47 52. Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur (Egypt) (C 86) ...... 47 54. Petra (Jordan) (C 326) ........................................................................................................... 50 55. Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa’a) (Jordan) (C 1093) ................................................................ 54 56. Byblos (Lebanon) (C 295) ...................................................................................................... 56 60. Archaeological Site of Carthage (Tunisia) (C 37) .................................................................. 59 MIXED PROPERTIES ........................................................................................................................... 62 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................. 62 66. The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (Iraq) (C/N 1481) ................................................................................. 62 NATURAL PROPERTIES ..................................................................................................................... 67 ASIA-PACIFIC ................................................................................................................................... 67 69. Western Tien Shan (Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan) (N 1490) ..................................... 67 State of conservation of properties WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add, p. 2 Inscribed on the World Heritage List 70. Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal) (N 120) ........................................................................... 70 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 74 72. Pirin National Park (Bulgaria) (N 225bis) ............................................................................... 74 80. Western Caucasus (Russian Federation) (N 900) ................................................................. 77 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ........................................................................................ 81 86. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico) (N 1182ter) .......................... 81 AFRICA .............................................................................................................................................. 86 93. Lake Malawi National Park (Malawi) (N 289) ......................................................................... 86 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................. 89 100. Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) (N 1263) ................................................................................. 89 II. OMNIBUS .................................................................................................................................... 90 CULTURAL PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................... 90 ASIA-PACIFIC ................................................................................................................................... 90 The Grand Canal (China) (C 1443bis) ........................................................................................... 90 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 91 Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey (Germany) (C 1447) ................................................... 91 Historic Centre of the City of Yaroslavl (Russian Federation) (C 1170)......................................... 92 State of conservation of properties WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add, p. 3 Inscribed on the World Heritage List I. REPORTS ON THE STATE OF CONSERVATION OF PROPERTIES INSCRIBED ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST CULTURAL PROPERTIES ASIA-PACIFIC 1. Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains (China) (C 705) Year of inscription on the World Heritage List 1994 Criteria (i)(ii)(vi) Year(s) of inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger N/A Previous Committee Decisions see page http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/705/documents/ International Assistance Requests approved: 0 Total amount approved: USD 0 For details, see page http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/705/assistance/ UNESCO Extra-budgetary Funds N/A Previous monitoring missions March 2014: Joint World Heritage Center/ICOMOS/ICCROM Reactive Monitoring mission Factors affecting the property identified in previous reports Management activities (Project to raise up the Yuzhen Palace at the property) Management systems / Management Plan (Requirement for a living heritage management approach) Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation (Tourism development has begun to reach a critical mass) Illustrative material see page http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/705/ Current conservation issues On 29 November 2017, the State Party submitted a report