Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
At the Committee session in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Angkor was placed on both lists at once — a recognition that the site's Outstanding Universal Value was beyond argument and that landmines, looting and illicit excavation put it in immediate peril. Inscription was made conditional on Cambodia establishing a protection and management regime.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Angkor · site · Cambodia
- List of World Heritage in Danger · instrument · Global · not located
- World Heritage Committee · institution · Global (sessions rotate by host State) · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Angkor — World Heritage property record and inscription history
Angkor was inscribed on the World Heritage List and simultaneously on the List of World Heritage in Danger on 14 December 1992 at the Committee session in Santa Fe, the threats being illicit excavation, pillaging and landmines. ALSO: The APSARA National Authority was created in 1995 to satisfy a condition of Angkor's 1992 inscription; successful conservation by APSARA, monitored by the International Coordinating Committee for Angkor, led the Committee to remove the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger in June 2004.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre; with APSARA National Authority, Kingdom of Cambodia · inscribed 14 December 1992; danger listing 1992–2004 · Partly verified
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/ — UNESCO property page for Angkor, with associated documents at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/documents | also: https://apsaraauthority.gov.kh/apsara-authority-main/about-apsara-authority/ — and https://apsaraauthority.gov.kh/international-cooperation/unesco-cambodia/
Recorded on Angkor
- The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
- Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
- The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
- Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
- The cultural and natural criteria are merged into a single set of ten
- Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
- Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
- Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
- The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
- The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
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- Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5 · 2009-06
- Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger · 2007
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List · 2007