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The UN specialised agency whose General Conference adopted the 1972 World Heritage Convention and whose secretariat, the World Heritage Centre, services the World Heritage Committee. UNESCO does not itself inscribe or delete sites: it convenes, drafts, monitors and publishes, while the decision to inscribe or delete belongs to the intergovernmental Committee of States Parties. Its earlier convening role in the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (launched by the Director-General in 1960) is the institutional ancestor of the Convention.

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  1. Story
  2. The UN specialised agency whose General Conference adopted the 1972 World Heritage Convention and whose secretariat, the World Heritage Centre, services the World Heritage Committee. UNESCO does not itself inscribe or delete sites: it convenes, drafts, monitors and publishes, while the decision to inscribe or delete belongs to the intergovernmental Committee of States Parties. Its earlier convening role in the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (launched by the Director-General in 1960) is the institutional ancestor of the Convention.
  3. Knowledge
  4. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
  5. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
  6. Connections
  7. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
  8. World Heritage Committee
  9. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
  10. UNESCO General Conference adopts the World Heritage Convention
  11. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
  12. Site of Palmyra
  13. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
  14. List of World Heritage in Danger
  15. World Heritage Committee
  16. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
  17. UNESCO General Conference adopts the World Heritage Convention
  18. The Convention enters into force
  19. ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums
  20. Evidence
  21. Establishes the World Heritage List, the List of World Heritage in Danger, the 21-member World Heritage Committee, the World Heritage Fund, and names ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN as advisory bodies; asserts a duty on the international community as a whole to co-operate in protecting heritage of outstanding universal value while leaving sovereignty with the State Party.
  22. Egypt and Sudan requested UNESCO assistance in 1959; the Director-General launched an international appeal in 1960; the campaign relocated 22 monuments in Lower Nubia, closed on 10 March 1980, and is credited with prompting the 'World Heritage Trust' concept and ultimately the 1972 Convention. ALSO: Engineers dismantled and re-erected the Abu Simbel temples on higher ground between 1964 and 1968, with work concluding on 22 September 1968, in response to the reservoir created by the Aswan High Dam.
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