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Technical Committee English TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Co‐chaired by Mr. Du Yue Mr. Naveen Srivastava Secretary-General of the Chinese National Ambassador of India Commission for UNESCO Embassy of China Embassy of India Organized by Siem Reap – September 29, 2016 – APSARA National Authority Premises INTERNATIONAL CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR THE SAFEGUARDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HISTORIC SITE OF PREAH VIHEAR SECOND TECHNICAL SESSION – SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 STANDING SECRETARIAT CONTACT Phnom Penh OCM Building – West Building E2-09, Russian Fed. Blvd., Phnom Penh Preah Vihear Thamacheat village, Sraem commune, Choam Khsant district, Preah Vihear province Tel.: +855 23 219 124 Email: [email protected] INTERNATIONAL CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR THE SAFEGUARDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HISTORIC SITE OF PREAH VIHEAR SECOND TECHNICAL SESSION – SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS I- OPENING SESSION ....................................................................... 3 I.1 Statement by His Excellency Naveen Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Cambodia, Embassy of India to Cambodia .......................................................................3 I.2 Remarks by His Excellency Hao Ping Chairman of the National Commission of China for UNESCO, Deputy-Minister of Education of China, Co-chair of the ICC-Preah Vihear ........................................................................................................4 I.3 Statement by His Excellency Mr. Yim Nolla, Senior Minister, Chairman of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Cambodia ...........................................6 I.4 Video Statement by His Excellency Dr. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister and President of the Cambodian National Commission for UNESCO .........................................6 II- ACTIVITY REPORTS .................................................................... 9 II.1 Report on the ICC-Preah Vihear activity, by the Permanent Scientific Secretary, Professor Azedine Beschaouch .......................................................................9 II.2 Report on the Preah Vihear National Authority activity, by His Excellency Kim Sedara, President of the Preah Vihear National Authority ................................. 10 III - ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS ................................................... 13 III.1 New status of Koh Ker Site, by His Excellency Mr. Kong Puthikar, Preah Vihear National Authority ...................................................................................... 13 III.2 New status of Phnom Tbeng National Park, by Mr. Seng Soth, Deputy Director- General, Ministry of the Environment ............................................................ 14 IV.A - TECHNICAL Reports on Preah Vihear Temple: ...................... 15 IV.A.1 Risk Map and Conservation Works, by Mr. Chhoun Bunnath, Preah Vihear National Authority ...................................................................................... 15 IV.A.2 Archeological Map, by Mr. Pheng Sameoun, Preah Vihear National Authority ... 17 IV.A.3 Forest Conservation and Restoration, by Mr. Khou Lenghourt, Preah Vihear National Authority ...................................................................................... 19 IV.B - Implementation Report on Tourism and Development ......... 21 IV.B.1 Progress Report on Museum, by Mr. Sam Piseth, Preah Vihear National Authority ............................................................................................................. 21 IV.B.2 Tourism Management, by Mr. Heng Samrith, Preah Vihear National Authority .. 23 IV.B.3 Community Development: Case of the Eco-village and Stoeung Kheav Village, by Mr. Young Sophack, Preah Vihear National Authority ................................... 24 General discussion ........................................................................................... 27 V - Technical Reports on Koh Ker Site ............................................ 31 V.1 Overview of Koh Ker Archeological Site, by His Excellency Mr. Kong Puthikar, Preah Vihear National Authority ............................................................................ 31 V.2 Historical Background & Archeology of the Koh Ker site, by Mr. Phin Pheakdey, Preah Vihear National Authority .................................................................... 33 General discussion ........................................................................................... 35 VI - International Activities ........................................................... 40 1 VI.1 Remarks by His Excellency Mr. Nuttavudh Photisaro, Ambassador of Thailand to Cambodia ................................................................................................. 40 VI.2 Remarks by the representative from Belgium ................................................ 41 VI.3 Remarks by the representative from China.................................................... 42 VII - ICC RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................................... 43 VII.1 Presentation of the recommendations by Mr. Azedine Beschaouch, Standing Secretary of the ICC-Preah Vihear ................................................................ 43 VII. 2 Discussion on the recommendation ............................................................ 44 VII.3 Approval of the Recommendations by the ICC .............................................. 47 General discussion ........................................................................................... 48 RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................... 50 VIII - CLOSING SESSION ............................................................... 51 VIII.1 Closing remarks from His Excellency Naveen Srivastava, Ambassador of India, Embassy of India in Cambodia ..................................................................... 51 VIII.2 Closing remark from His Excellency Dr Yim Nolla, Senior Minister of the Council of Ministers of the Royal Government of Cambodia .......................................... 51 VIII.3 Closing remarks from His Excellency Mr Du Yue, Secretary-General of the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO ..................................................... 52 List of Participants ......................................................................... 54 NOTICE: The languages used during the sessions of the ICC are English, French and Khmer. In the English language record of the discussions, all material spo- ken originally in French or Khmer is therefore a translation. Presentations and comments made originally in French are indicated by [OrigF] at the beginning of the contribution. The insertion [OrigK] shows that the original statement was in Khmer. 2 RECORD OF THE DISCUSSIONS I- OPENING SESSION Comment from the Co-chairman for India: “Good morning, distinguished Ladies and Gen- tlemen, Senior Minister Mr. Yim Nolla and Mr. Hao Ping, Vice Minister of Education from the People’s Republic of China. My name is Nareem, Ambassador of India, representing the Archaeological Survey of India and Co-chairman of this Technical Session of the Preah Vi- hear-ICC. My distinguished Co-chairman from China, Mr. Due Yue, and I are very glad to be here and to have this opportunity once again to co-chair this particular session. Let me first take this opportunity to invite His Excellency Yim Nolla, Senior Minister of the Council of Ministers to present his opening remarks. Please. Thank you for your patience Ladies and Gentlemen; let me make my opening re- marks. I think you all have a copy of the agenda. I will make my opening remarks and then I will invite the Co-chairman from China to make his remarks after which the Senior Minis- ter will give the welcoming speech.” I.1 Statement by His Excellency Naveen Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Cambodia, Embassy of India to Cambodia “Your Excellency Mr. Yim Nolla, Senior Minister of the Council of Ministers Distinguished members of the International Co-ordinating Committee, His Excellency Mr Hao Ping from China, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my honour and privilege to join you this morning for the second Technical Ses- sion of the ICC-Preah Vihear. Let me take this opportunity to thank first of all the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Preah Vihear National Authority for the excellent work they have carried out and the support they have been providing for the work of our Co- ordinating Committee. I would also like to compliment them for the excellent arrangements made, as they have done so always. Ladies and Gentlemen in the last few sessions, both plenary and technical, we had a very good set of presentations on the work carried out, in terms of fulfilling the mandate of the ICC. Within these presentations excellent discussions have been held and a set of rec- ommendations were agreed on at the last plenary meeting. Particularly, I would like to recall the discussions which were held in March of this year at the last Plenary Session, where specific recommendations were made on how to go about performing the restoration and conservation work at Preah Vihear. I also recall that I, representing the government of India, commented that we would be making specific arrangement and particularly would make concrete suggestions as to what work we could carry out at Preah Vihear Temple. Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been said earlier and I would like to recall that the ICC-Preah Vihear is unique, as in this case there is a single temple on which several international teams are working together to restore it to its
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