The Committee inscribed 26 new properties, including making 2 major extensions to properties which are considered as new inscriptions. The other inscriptions include 20 cultural properties, 5 natural properties and 1 mixed site. These properties thus benefit from the highest level of heritage protection in the world. Their managers will now have access to new opportunities for technical and financial assistance from UNESCO.
These inscriptions bring the total number of properties inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List to 1223, in 168 countries. The Committee also examined the state of conservation of 123 other properties already inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Several States Parties to the Convention - Colombia, Mauritius, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the United Republic of Tanzania - have been allocated additional funds amounting to $235,520, to finance new conservation work on properties on their territory.
This new work will be added to the 22 International Assistance requests already approved since the beginning of the year, for a total amount of 695,201 dollars, in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Arab States, Latin America and the Caribbean - all testimony to the work UNESCO and its partners are doing around the world to preserve of our common heritage.
Finally, the Committee announced that its next session to be held in the summer of 2025, will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, under the chairmanship of Professor Nikolay Nenov.
