 Good morning, dear delegates. Could you kindly take your seats? So good morning to everybody. It's a great pleasure to see you and we have the pleasure to see our Chairperson, Mrs. Lale Ulka, who came from Istanbul or from Ankara and She will pronounce her opening speech. Thank you. Thank you very much, Madam Director Distinguished members of the World Heritage Committee, dear Director Rosner, members of the Secretariat and the advisory bodies, Ecomos, IUCN and ECROM. Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to welcome you to the first session for committee members for orientation session. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you have extended to me for the chairmanship. I will spare no effort to fulfill this important responsibility you have entrusted me. Allow me to express my heartfelt congratulations to Madam Rosner on her appointment as Director of the Division for World Heritage and World Heritage Center. The Set Division is very fortunate to have someone of her obvious abilities and academic background associated with World Heritage. As you all know, it is now customary to organize several orientation sessions prior to the World Heritage Committee's annual session at the request of state parties. This practice allows more opportunities for exchanges and more time for preparation of the forthcoming session. Hence, another orientation session will be organized on 10th of July immediately prior to the fortieth session of the committee, which, as you all know, will be held in Istanbul from 10 to 20 July 2016. This orientation session, notably dedicated to inform new committee members and jointly prepared by the World Heritage Center and the three advisory bodies, will cover several topics and key notions in the framework of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. Its aim is to assist the committee members in their preparation to the fortieth session in the best possible conditions. Such sessions aim to contribute to objective decisions committee members will have to make and the processes they will have to follow or take into account as required by the Convention to operational guidelines and the rules of procedures. This session is organized mainly to familiarize ourselves with the relevant procedures, notions and topics related to World Heritage, including outstanding universal value, state of conservation and nomination process. It will also cover specific matters and briefings. I am convinced that this orientation session would be very helpful in our preparation of the work towards reaching the most appropriate solution concerning the issues that we will have to address during the fortieth session of the committee. Along the way, special emphasis should be given to the sustainability of the World Heritage Fund. As part of UNESCO's overall problems, the financial situation is on the top of the list. We all know that the sustainability of the fund is at stake unless effective and innovative solutions are introduced. This is the reason why our committee decided last year in Mon to extend the mandate of the working group, the so-called ETOC group, previously set up in Doha. The main aim in doing so was to allow further reflection on the recommendations on working matters of our committee and the sustainability of the fund. The ETOC group convened three times since phone. Based on the discussions, some preliminary ideas appear now on how to ensure the sustainability. The group, chaired by Turkish Ambassador, Ambassador Bosal will hold another meeting this afternoon. The Turkish chairmanship expects that tangible ideas emerge as a result of this exercise and aims to conclude the work of the ETOC group prior to the fortieth session so that our committee be able to decide without delay and in a fashion that will satisfy the expectations of the state parties. Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, as you see, we have a number of important matters that will stand before us during the fortieth session of the committee. The decisions we will take are expected to be objective and constructive, with a view to ensure the protection and preservation of world heritage in respect of international standards. Following its inception, the 1972 Convention evolves into a highly visible and prestigious establishment as one of UNESCO's flagship instruments. It's attracting broad interest and recognition while raising the spirit of collective responsibility to protect preserve and manage the replaceable cultural and natural properties of outstanding universal value. Our task is to protect the common heritage of humanity wherever it is located and regardless of whoever it may belong to. It is thus of paramount importance that we make sure that the credibility of our convention is preserved. In my capacity as chairperson, I shall be at your disposal for any critical issue which may come up prior or during the fortieth session in order to have a constructive dialogue in the accomplishment of our work in Istanbul next July. Please be assured that you can count on my active assistance and full support. I am also looking forward to see you at the information and exchange session at the end of May or beginning of June that we will have, during which we will provide you with more details on the fortieth session of the committee and all logistical information necessary. Ladies and gentlemen, however, as you have not noticed from today's program, a preliminary presentation about some of the logistical aspects of the fortieth session will be had in a few hours at the end of our meeting. Concluding my remarks, I have full confidence that the fortieth session in Istanbul will be a success with your active support, engagement and contribution. The city of Istanbul with it is historical background that spans centuries and it is multicultural structure has a distinctive cultural identity. We believe it will be an ideal host to our session in terms of universal heritage as human value. On the way to Istanbul, we will be in close cooperation with you and other stakeholders and listen carefully to your views and comments. I thank you in advance for your efforts and I invite now the World Heritage Center and the advisory bodies to make their presentation. I give the floor to Director Röschler and I thank you all. Dear Chairperson, distinguished members of the World Heritage Committee, colleagues from our advisory bodies, IKOMOS, IUSN and IKROM, ladies and gentlemen. For me it is a great pleasure to welcome you all to this orientation session for the committee members which is organized by the World Heritage Center in cooperation with the advisory bodies. But first and foremost, I would like to congratulate you, Mrs. Lale Ölker, as Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee. It is one of the most important positions you can have among all of the international conventions and I am sure that with your background you will guide us wisely and efficiently. I have no doubts. We are very pleased that you came to chair this orientation session. My intervention will be very brief as you as the Chairperson, you have already addressed this session in more detail, but I would like to highlight the critical importance of this meeting. Ever since 2008, since the Quebec Committee meeting, we organized this session which proved to be very useful. At least many committee members have asked us to do it and so we do now also one early under year to be better prepared for the committee sessions and all the processes and procedures. This session is managed by the advisory bodies who are all here next to us and presentations will be made both by the advisory bodies and my colleagues here from the center. And I would like very much you to participate in it, especially the new committee members. Please do not hesitate to ask any question you always wanted to ask about World Heritage. The aim of this session is really to assist you to efficiently prepare for the World Heritage Committee meeting. I think it also assists in making the whole processes more transparent for all of those attending the committee meeting. In this regard, I would like to inform you that this session and this is the first time will be also recorded by video. In this way, it will be made available for the benefit of all committee members and of all state parties and including the natural and cultural heritage experts from your countries that are unable to attend this session here in UNESCO. And I think this is very important that we will send the link out to the video afterwards so that you can share it with all your experts in the countries. Finally, and as mentioned at earlier meetings, it is important for you to give feedback. So please let us know what you would like to have presented and discussed during the next orientation session in order for us to be as relevant as possible. And now I give the floor back to our chair and wish us all a very fruitful meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much, Madame Rösner. Now I think we will continue with Ikron. Yes, please. And Mr. Kink. Yes. Mr. Kink, you have the floor representative of the Ikron. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And let me also add my congratulations and the congratulations of Ikron and my director general, Mr. Stefano De Caro, for your assuming the chairmanship of the World Heritage Committee. And I can just say that we at Ikron look forward very much to working with Turkey and under your direction as chair for the implementation of the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee. And thank you again for giving me the floor. I will be discussing the concept of Outstanding Universal Value, sort of introducing that concept. But before I do, I just want to make a preliminary comment, which we will come back to later on in the agenda. And that is that these, as the director of the World Heritage Center has already mentioned, these orientation sessions have been going on now since about 2008. And we have always tried to make these as relevant as possible. And we wish to continue to make this more and more relevant as time goes on. And what we are starting to think about is we are starting to think about these orientations as a two-year cycle. As new members are elected to the committee, there is a two-year cycle between that and the next election of the next group of committee members. And so what we are trying to think about a little bit for the future is putting these, rather than presenting the same information orientation session after orientation session, to think about this a little bit more as a two-year cycle and looking at what kinds of information over the course of that two-year cycle might be interesting to all of you. And so in fact, later on in this agenda there will be a small discussion on future orientation sessions when we would like to actually hear back from you, give you some ideas of what we are thinking and hear back from you in that session later on. So I just wanted to highlight that and to say that this introduction to Outstanding Universal Value obviously comes at the beginning of one of these two-year cycles. We have a number of new committee members coming on to the committee at this point in time. And so we think that it is important to begin at the beginning and begin at really what the basis of this convention is about, and that is Outstanding Universal Value. So that is where we begin our orientation in that sense. I guess I have to ask for the next slide. Is that how we are working? Yes. Okay. This is just my opening shot of Outstanding Universal Value. And what I have tried to do, I would hope that committee members will look up on this slide and see properties coming from your own countries in one way or another. I tried to incorporate at least a picture of at least one property of Outstanding Universal Value, in some cases cultural, in some cases natural, coming from each of the members of the committee. Next slide, please. Next slide. When I begin discussion of what is Outstanding Universal Value, I often start not with any definition in, well there is no definition in the convention itself, or the definitions in the operational guidelines, but I like to start with the title of the convention itself. Most of us in a shorthand manner refer to the World Heritage Convention as the World Heritage Convention. But the truth of the matter is that that is not the title of this convention. The title of this convention is the convention concerning the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage. And I like to point that out because I like to underline, as you can see I've underlined it in the slide, the word protection. This convention was set up specifically to protect the world's cultural and natural heritage. And any understanding of Outstanding Universal Value I think really has to be based on that concept of protection. Now within the convention, obviously there are several different steps or processes that are necessary to carry out that protection. And those steps are identification, i.e. creation of the World Heritage list, but then protection, conservation, promotion, and transmission to future, presentation rather, and transmission to future generation. So those are the processes that are necessary for protection. But I think we need to understand that again when we begin to think about really what is Outstanding Universal Value. Can I have the next slide please? Thank you. Now as I mentioned in the convention itself there is no specific definition of Outstanding Universal Value. But in fact the framers of the convention were wise enough to recognize that it would really be the definitions of heritage were potentially going to change over time and how we view heritage were going to change over time. And so what they did is they left that to the committee. They said that it was going to be up to the committee to determine and to define the area for inscription of properties on the World Heritage list. But in 2005 we did add to paragraph 49 of the operational guidelines the definition that you see. I won't take the time to read the definition. But the key aspects behind this are in fact that this is heritage that is important and of common importance for all of humanity, for present generations of humankind and for future generations of humankind. And therefore it is of the highest importance for the international community to try to aid individual states parties in the protection of that heritage. Next slide please. You've seen this picture also before but again it's worth mentioning that the concept behind this is a drawing that was done by IUCN to try to explain the concept of outstanding universal value but in relation to all of the other values that properties have around the world. All countries have a variety of properties that have value at the subnational level, at the national level, at the regional level and there are also other conventions which may have value at different levels. The idea here though is that world heritage are those properties that are really considered to be of outstanding universal value for all of humanity and by its nature therefore it's going to be a selected number of properties. The numbers of world heritage properties are going to be obviously much smaller than the larger group of properties that may be important at an international level under other conventions or at a regional level or at a national level. So again we're really looking at the most select properties when we're talking about outstanding universal value. Next slide please. Now here's our famous drawing that I know many of you are familiar with but I think it's actually one that's very important in talking about outstanding universal value. According to the convention it's the committee that defines the criteria for which we consider outstanding universal value and the committee has made a very clear reference in the operational guidelines to what constitutes something of outstanding universal value and it says that it must meet one or more of ten criteria but it also must meet the conditions of integrity for all properties that are to be considered of outstanding universal value and it must meet the test of authenticity for those properties which are nominated under cultural criteria that is the first six of the ten criteria. And thirdly and just as importantly it must also have protection and management and I'll go back again to my comment about the title of the convention. This convention is about protection of cultural and natural heritage and as such that pillar of protection and management is an important underpinning part of the outstanding universal value. Next slide please. And you can see and many of you have seen this slide also before what happens if one of those three pillars is removed or is sufficiently weakened and in fact the answer is that the outstanding universal value tumbles down if I can use that expression. And I would again point out that in paragraph 78 of the operational guidelines it says actually very clearly that in order to be considered of outstanding universal value the property and question must not only meet the specific criteria but it also must respond to the conditions of integrity and authenticity and it must have a system of management and protection to safeguard that property. So this is in the operational guidelines and it's actually quite clear that outstanding universal value depends not only on the ten criteria but it depends on the authenticity and integrity and the protection and management. So I think these are important aspects to take into consideration. Next slide please. So what are those three pillars? Well the first one, the criteria actually respond to a question why is this site important and what you will find is that when responding to those criteria and again I will not read the particular criteria in this case, the picture is a site from Finland but the point is that the criteria, the paragraph itself or the paragraphs outlining the criteria are going to explain to us and to explain to the world why is this particular property of importance. Next slide please. And then the second pillar which is the integrity and the authenticity is going to be answering the question for integrity is going to be answering the question does it tell the whole story? If we are making the argument that there are certain criteria which make this property important, that give this property a certain value, the next question is does it actually tell the whole story? Is the site large enough? Does it contain all of the necessary elements for us to be able to tell this story, to be able for us to understand why this site is important and so the issue of integrity is important for us to ensure that we have the whole story, that we can understand the site in its entirety and that it is considered whole or complete. Next slide. And then for the cultural sites the question becomes is it truthful? Are the attributes that explain this value, this importance, are they actually truthful? Are they credible? And once again that also needs to be a part of our understanding of the outstanding universal value. Next slide, please. And then finally on the protection and management we are asking ourselves how can we assure the future of this property? And there may be a series of questions related to management, management systems, tourism management, and also what are some of the key issues that we need to be looking at in the future on that? So those are the pillars that we need to be looking at. Next slide, please. Now we've put that all together and this is something that again in the 2005 operational guidelines, what we've said is that there needs to be a statement of outstanding universal value which combines all of these elements and which allows you, the committee, the state party, we the advisory bodies, and the whole world to actually be able through one statement to try to understand what are the key issues, what is the key importance, and the key protection aspects. And that statement of outstanding universal value then is first mentioned in paragraph 51 of the operational guidelines. Next slide. What is contained in that? It's basically those things that I've just explained to you. It starts out with a brief summary of the property and that summary of the property includes basic factual information and also sort of a summary of what the key qualities are, the key attributes are. And then that statement of OUV then explains criteria by criteria why that site is important and then has paragraphs specifically related to the integrity of the property, the authenticity of the property for those cultural sites, and the information on the management and protection of the property in order to maintain the outstanding universal value. Next slide, please. So essentially, again, why is this important to you as a committee? Why am I discussing this with you now in an orientation session? Well, the key reason is because all of the decisions that you make are going to be based on this statement of outstanding universal value and understanding the statement of outstanding universal value because it is the basis for the protection and management of the property once it's inscribed on the World Heritage List. So that means that a state party needs to look at this statement of OUV or at least start thinking about it even when they're doing their tentative list. But then you as members of the committee are going to be having to look at this when you look at the nominations, when you actually make your judgment based on the evaluations of the advisory bodies, you need to understand this outstanding universal value and essentially what you're doing is you're passing your decision as to whether these standards of outstanding universal value have been met for the property. But you'll also be using this for looking at the reactive monitoring, the state of conservation reporting. When we look at reactive monitoring, we need to go back and look at the statement of OUV and we have to understand what the OUV is in relation to the issues related to monitoring, the issues related to periodic reporting, and then of course it's something very important for understanding whether a site needs to be inscribed on the World Heritage List in danger and eventually whether a site would need to be actually removed from the World Heritage List. Next slide please. So again, this is just sort of a summary of all that I've been saying. The statement of OUV is important to all of us because it helps us to understand the reasons why a site is justified for being on the World Heritage List. It gives us the orientations that we need in order to manage the site and it helps us to evaluate that site and the state of conservation of that site into the future. So this is my last slide, but again I just really want to emphasize that understanding the OUV of a property really underpins all of the processes of this World Heritage Convention. And so this really becomes the basis of our understanding and the basis for you as committee members of all the things that you need to do and all the decisions that you need to make as members of the committee over the next two to four years depending on your mandates. So with that, Madam Chair, I'd like to thank you for allowing me the floor and thank you. Mr. Kink, thank you very much. It was a very comprehensive briefing on concept of outstanding universal value. You have really enlightened us. Thank you very much again. Now I give the floor to talk on the nomination process to Mr. Alessandro Bazzamo from the World Heritage Center. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I will give you a real brief overview about the nomination process and the main nomination requirements in the few minutes that I have, knowing that especially concerning nomination requirements, it is a presentation that sometimes I've been doing during one whole week, so it will be very summarized in this case. So the nomination process, next slide please, starts first of all with the State Party making an inventory of its own heritage, including both cultural and natural sites. One thing that is extremely important to remind is that our convention is the only international tool providing conservation for both cultural and natural sites. And after that, as you can see, we inserted right away the new concept of upstream process. Upstream process in relation to the nomination of site for inscription on the World Heritage List include advice, consultation and analysis that occur prior to the submission of a nomination and are aimed at reducing the number of nominations that experience significant problems during the evaluation process. The basic principle of upstream process is to enable the advisory bodies and the secretariat to provide support directly to State parties throughout the whole process leading up to a possible World Heritage nomination. And the reason why upstream process is inserted here at the very beginning of the process is that for the upstream support to be really effective, it should ideally be undertaken from the earliest stage in the nomination process at the moment of the preparation or revision of the State Party's tentative list. So after making an inventory of its own heritage from the sites on the national inventory, the State Party may choose and select a part of them on those that it may consider as that they could have outstanding universal value. And this is a process of selection that was also mentioned just before by joking in the sense that we should think about the convention as a tool that can preserve only a very selected number of sites. Next slide, please. So the State Party then may select one site from its tentative list and choose it to nominate for inscription on the World Heritage list. Of course this is a very summarized process and we can see that we jump to the stage where the State Party may already submit a draft copy of this nomination file that normally should be done by the 30 of September prior to the finalized nomination submission. But we know that this step between the first preparation of the nomination and the stage where the State Party is already ready to submit a draft nomination may take in many cases from years. So that's why here it's very summarized. Following the submission of a draft nomination the Secretariat reviews this draft providing comments to the State Party in view of the finalization of the document and this is done during the month of October, November preceding the final submission which is next slide please. Which happens by the 1st of February of each year which is the official deadline for submission of new nominations. Following this submission the Secretariat analyzes all the nominations received by the deadline and check their completeness during the month of February. So right now we are doing this work for the nomination that we received by the last 1st of February. And following the completeness check we inform the State Parties about the result of this completeness check by letter on the 1st of March and then we transmit those nominations that are considered complete to the advisory bodies during the month of March. Next slide please. From this point on we consider that the evaluation process is beginning and later the advisory bodies will present how this is dealt with. The 1st part of this evaluation process between June and October also include a mission on the site. Following this the advisory bodies have their first panel meetings which may decide whether supplementary information is needed or if some of the recommendation could be already elaborated. And this is in the month of December. And after that the advisory bodies forward to State Parties by 31st of January of the 2nd year a short interim report applying the status of any issues relevant to evaluations or any request also for supplementary information. And this is happened for the 1st time this year with the State Parties nominating properties for the forthcoming session of the committee. Next slide please. In case it is requested the State Parties should submit supplementary information by the 28th of February of the 2nd year. And following that the advisory bodies have the 2nd panel meetings in which they decide the recommendation on the basis of the whole documentation studied and their discussion and the results of the evaluation missions. This is happened during the month of March of the 2nd year. And following that the evaluation and recommendations are basically finalized and transmitted to the concerned State Parties as soon as we receive them from the advisory bodies we transmit them to the concerned State Parties and which happens normally during the month of May. Next slide please. And the State Parties may, by looking and analyzing their evaluation, the evaluations of their own sites, they may send letters detailing factual errors for which we have Annex in the operational guidance, Annex 12. And this should be done at the latest by 14 days before the opening of the session of the committee. At the end of the process it's up to the committee to take decisions having dealt with all this information through the reading of the evaluation and of course of the related nomination file by the State Parties. So there are four types normally of decision that the committee could take as transcribed to refer to defer back to the State Party or not transcribed but we will also see later on what this means. And I will go now to the next slide, very quickly also on the main requirements for nomination just to remind you really those main requirements. Next slide. And first of all we ought to note that of course the site should be included on the State Parties tentative list prior to the submission of the nomination but not only included but it should be at least one year prior in the tentative list one year prior to the submission of its related nomination. Next slide. Nomination which is the main document and the basis on which the committee consider the inscription of properties along with of course evaluation of the advisory bodies and nomination in which all relevant information about the site which the State Party wish to protect should include all this relevant information. The next slide please. The structure of nomination document as you all know it's made of nine different sections plus an executive summary. What is important to underline is that there must be a logic line which go through the whole nine sections and what is identified in section one should be described in section two and justified in section three. This may seem obvious but it's one of the main reasons for incompleteness of nominations which have discrepancies at this level. Next slide please. And another one very common problem that may encounter nomination at the level of completeness check is what concern the identification of the site. Again what is presented in the identification session must also be matching what is presented on the maps. Maps that should have a series of characteristics to be adequate and to present adequately the boundaries that are proposed so it should be an appropriate typology depending on the kind of site that is presented of course for site urbanized in a city or a city center we expect a cadastral maps for a larger site maybe in a natural site we expect topographic maps but there should be a clear legend there should be a coordination system there should be clearly defined boundaries and of course it's very very important also the scale that is chosen depending also on the size of the site that is presented next slide please. And as you can see for instance in site that are in urban context it's also very very important the width of the line of the boundaries which should be as thin as to be visible and less big than for instance a street or a building because otherwise as we can see next slide this line could cover an area which makes the boundary totally inadequate and hard to read because it's not well defined next slide another very important aspect which often a nomination may fail also at the level of the completeness check is the comparative analysis and as is required in paragraph 132 as well as annex 5 of the operational guidelines the comparative analysis of the property should be done in relation to similar properties which is really important whether or not on the word heritage list and both at the international national level so nomination files that do not include this kind of comparative analysis are incomplete and I must add also that a comparative analysis must include comparisons because often the problem is that under comparative analysis we receive more description of the sites so it's also problematic next slide another very important aspect of course is the management which should be provided in the nomination along with the rest of the information and next slide another also very important part is the signature which obviously should conclude the nomination file but of course if that is missing also it could be very problematic in terms of completeness and with this I encourage this part of the presentation thank you Madam Chair thank you very much Mr. Balsamo now we will continue with the representative of IKOMOS in the name of IKOMOS and IUCN Ambassador of Finland I think you have a question or a remark please thank you very much Madam Chair person thank you I missed your introductory statement sorry about that I would like to thank you and the Secretary and the advisory bodies for the information we have received so far and my colleague inform me that actually it was possible and even welcome to ask a question when it's actually related to the presentation so my able colleague expert would like to ask a question concerning the flow chart of the nomination that was just presented thank you very much thank you regarding the interim reports that we saw in your presentation that was a recommendation made by the ad hoc working group working last year and it was discussed in the operational guidelines and actually ended up in the operational guidelines by decision in Bonn last year during the ad hoc working group and also the operational guidelines working group the text actually said that the interim report should be sent out to the Secretary the Chair person and in Bracklets it said to the committee members that one fell out actually in the text in annex 6 in the operational guidelines the new version of the operational guidelines that we are working with now however Finland as a committee member all the time has thought that we as committee members need that information so I would like to ask for clarification on this point did we misunderstood something or what happened to the interim report that we have received the information about that it has been sent out to the Secretary and to the Chair person thank you thank you very much the advisory bodies I think will reply this question thank you Chair and I think it's working so firstly congratulations to the chair and the new committee members just to respond to the question in fact it was foreseen to cover this in a point about the evaluation that was going to address but I'll address the point straight away so first of all we've implemented the interim report process and including for both IUCN and ECMOS for all of the state parties with the nomination where we had a specific request for supplementary information those letters were dispatched before the end of December and before the end of January for those where we didn't have specific questions but we had an update on the progress the information has been provided to the centre and it's foreseen I think after a meeting with the chair person this morning that those interim reports are available to the chair person as is specified I think it's probably a matter for the chair person and the centre to distribute further but certainly from IUCN's point of view we would see no reason why the committee members should not have a site of a position of IUCN on the nomination that's been communicated formally by us as part of the evaluation process so I think it's probably the office of the chair person that can decide if that request should be met but I don't see any objection to the committee having site of that information it would be normal that that could take place I don't know if ECMOS has any opinion on the matter I think it's an on-the-record written position that could be is intended to be helpful to all parties in the dialogue process Mr Badman thank you for the clarification I think there is no problem we can do that and representative of Portugal thank you very much very much Madam President well thank you very much for our finished colleague for his question and thank you very much for IUCN so strongly to request made by committee members but I wanted to use this very short window to first and foremost congratulate you Madam President and thank you for being with us today and of course for us it is also imperative to us today to share with you Madam President our profound sadness for the attacks yesterday in Ankara which we strongly condemn we extend our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and we wish a quick recovery for those injures this was the message of my country to you Madam President just one thank you very much for your very kind verse of sympathy and solidarity thanks a lot now I give the floor to Tunisia Tunisia thank you Madam President thank you too for this initiative for the organization of this orientation session I have a question in relation to the development in relation to the reactivity with the room are questions supposed to be asked after each intervention or at the end of all the interventions in relation to the presentation which was made by the secretary I have a question Tunisia recently in November 2015 at the World Heritage Committee I have a clarification to ask in relation to the decision after after a process of inscription if the good is not inscribed it is sent or different so what is the difference and what future for a good is not inscribed do you need to respect a certain period to come back to the charge or is in a definitive way not inscribed that was the clarification that I would like to have thank you very much this will be replied and the further items you will have a clarification and the further items we have already asked representative of ICOMOS you have finished already Mr. Bayer I will present briefly the conditions of inscription for a good on the World Heritage List here I think I will bring the microphone it will be better so I will present briefly the conditions of inscription for a good on the World Heritage List the consultative organizations who make a scientific study of inscription propositions evaluate in what measure the good offered for inscription fill the conditions of exceptional universal value as they are defined by the orientations and in terms of inscription criteria in terms of integrity and authenticity and protection and management the Convention of the World Heritage List so these are the goods that are inscribed on the World Heritage List these goods express an exceptional universal value and these are the attributes that carry this exceptional universal value the attributes are physical elements and tangible or intangible aspects or processes of good that manifest the exceptional universal value next slide the inscription of a good on the World Heritage List is recommended by consultative organizations when the following conditions are filled the comparative analysis has been considered satisfying in the measure where it has demonstrated the way which the good is distinguished compared to other similar examples in the same geocultural air and it has allowed to learn the importance of good in its national and international context consultative organizations in addition to the information provided in the inscription on the scientific research and the themes available to evaluate the equivalence of comparative analysis regarding the criteria one or several or even the whole of the cultural and natural criteria have been justified the conditions of integrity have been demonstrated if all the elements that are necessary to express the exceptional universal value have been included in the delimitation of good if this one is of sufficient size to represent the elements and processes that express this value and if in the end the good has no negative impact due to development or abandonment an agro-industrial landscape for example should include elements that have to depend on the geographical, technological and socio-historical factors that have made possible its establishment and its development for the cultural goods only the conditions of authenticity have been met if the values put forward are expressed in a veridic and credible way through a variety of attributes the ICOMOS checks the sources of information in a veridic way of the value of good for an archaeological site for example ICOMOS will consider how the material vestiges of good associated with the many information obtained through the archaeological research conducted on the site as well as the waste storage brings a credible testimony to the support of the importance of the culture that built the good the following diapos the following conditions should also be met to justify the inscription the delimitations are considered satisfying if they include all the elements that contribute to the exceptional universal value of good if they understand zones that have the light of future research will allow them to grow their understanding and if they have been clearly delimited they can coincide with protected zones they must ensure a balance of protection to the good protection is adequate if good is protected in a regular way at the national, regional, municipal and or traditional level and preferably at the highest possible level the whole of good and its attributes must be protected the measures of protection must protect the good from threats that can weigh on it in order to be put into action and to be effective on the field the measures of safe conservation are satisfying in the measure where it allows to maintain the values of good as well as the conditions of integrity and authenticity the management is considered appropriate if it supports a clear understanding of the exceptional universal value and of its attributes if it defines the way which it will be preserved in the future and if it allows to manage the changes efficiently and in the measure where it supports participative means next slide a good can fail on one or the other of its aspects it can have a universal importance but a protection and management that are not satisfying enough on the other hand it can be well protected and managed but not have demonstrated an exceptional universal importance the non-realization of some of the conditions previously specified must lead to other recommendations than the inscription these are all the conditions as defined by the orientations which must be combined to allow the inscription of a good on the list consultative organizations can be led to make additional recommendations but the inscription is not conditional on their realization these recommendations are perceived as useful orientations to take into account questions for the future of good next slide finally consultative organizations act in the interest of the conservation of goods it means that sometimes it is recommended that more time is given to allow the inscription on the list thank you thank you thank you madam chair next slide please you have the floor thank you chair sorry we anticipated a presentation just to go a bit further on the advisory body evaluation process before the documentation so if the slides could be returned to the the first of those other slides are getting there the last part of the presentation on evaluations before we turn to the documentation is a short presentation from me on behalf of AUCN with a short word from Ikamos to follow just to go a little bit further into the evaluation process that we engage in for nominations when we bring these evaluations forward to the World Heritage Committee so next slide please sorry thank you so just firstly to reinforce that in all cases we have this common frame of reference set by the operational guidelines for the concept of outstanding universal value and so it is as Joe King from ICROM explained an evaluation of questions of criteria, questions of integrity for the natural sites that AUCN evaluates and questions of integrity and authenticity for the cultural sites that ICROMOS evaluates and also crucially the question of protection and management being appropriately in place and the evaluation is seeking to determine whether all three of these requirements are being met by a nomination and to advise the committee if that is the case or not next slide please so this slide just explains to you and I won't read everything some of the principles that apply for AUCN and equally apply ICROMOS in terms of in terms of our approach to evaluations that we present to the World Heritage Committee the first is a focus on quality and a focus on the role that we have to provide you with independent advice and it is the fact of the committee having access to independent advice that is one of the foundations for maintaining the high standards of the convention the second is an approach based on partnership both with our fellow advisory bodies and with the World Heritage Center in the case of AUCN also on a routine basis with the World Conservation Monitoring Center of UNEP and shown with the logos at the bottom of this slide for AUCN also with geological and geomorphological specialist organizations who complement AUCN's main focus around biodiversity conservation and protected areas the third principle we consider is essential and is even more and more relevant for this convention as it has more than a thousand sites and in the 21st century is the idea that with World Heritage sites we should be seeking the highest quality of management of protection and to have sites that show the best examples we could imagine for conservation to be delivered in practice so we don't apologize for presenting to you evaluations where we seek to articulate the need for this convention perhaps more than any other convention for heritage protection to set the highest possible standards and the last element of this is to make the note that we extend in our evaluation across a wide ranging network of specialist advice as I've mentioned IUGS and IAG and our own internal commissions which phrase in number more than 10,000 scientists across the whole of the planet when we present an evaluation to you and I think the figures would be quite similar for ICAMOS we're presenting an evaluation that will have had significant technical input from anywhere between 20 and 40 experts who've supported the process and given us inputs which we present to the World Heritage Committee next slide please so this is a new diagram as was referred to by Finland in the earlier question we have a updated and upgraded process of evaluation that was agreed at the World Heritage Committee last year so this is the annex in now in the operational guidelines that was completely revised with a substantial discussion on issues raised through the ad hoc working group and now makes clear that we have a process which has a range of inputs as the next few slides will show you always with a field component so we always have experts going to the field to meet the state party to meet stakeholders for every nomination always with extensive desk review always with consultation with our partners in the convention if we're dealing with any site where we have a common interest notably with ICAMOS on questions of cultural landscapes and mixed sites and extensive consultation across our own regional and expert networks but this separated diagram also makes clear that the process has a range of different stages where dialogue with states parties can take place sometimes before missions take place always during field evaluation missions and now always after the evaluation missions and during and after the meetings of the IUCN and ICAMOS World Heritage Panels as it was agreed late in the process in fact this diagram does not show that progress report component of the evaluation but I think my earlier answer made clear that we now also as required in the new operational guidelines provide a progress report to states parties by 31st of January each year and on the basis of this year's practice for all those states parties where we are requesting additional information that was done one month earlier than that to give even more time for the state parties to make those responses I think we can perhaps talk about the dialogue process if parties have questions but it is a hallmark I think of very significant change in the process that we have now very extensive discussion with nominating states parties across all of those parties that are making nominations I think we're in contact with all of them at least by letter we've offered meetings in every circumstance and wherever meetings have been requested we are holding meetings either by Skype or face to face and we're going to talk about the panel process at the end of this presentation next slide please so I'll just be very brief as I think we've covered most of this this is a historic slide the first time we've showed you a joint slide of pictures of the IUCN and ECOMOS World Heritage Panels meeting these are no longer secret organizations we've published details of our panel membership for some time ECOMOS also does the same now and some of the activities have been invited to meet the ECOMOS panel this year so enjoy this historic moment next slide please the next slide just makes the point that we go to the field so you see here a variety of the field missions taking place across IUCN and ECOMOS next slide please just the last slides make clear that we have this dialogue process we have a conservation report with Australia not a nomination but we have many meetings that look like this with states parties during the nomination process now comprehensively across all nominating states parties that wish to meet us next slide please the last three slides just reinforce the point that we have a large amount of published science and advice available for states parties to benefit from the issues that have been prepared by IUCN and ECOMOS in recent years that are all available to help you identify the strongest candidates for bringing forward to tentative lists and possible inscription within your countries next slide please the last slides here just illustrate the importance we attach IUCN to building a diverse regional network of specialists across our regional offices to provide more direct and regular support including some staff that are now seconded to UNESCO category two centres next slide please the importance we attach to capacity building and training you may recognise a number of state party focal points amongst this training course for people on the IUCN evaluation process and the last slide I think is to just make the final point about the importance we attach to engagement with stakeholders in the process it is one vital part of the evaluation process that we access a full range of stakeholders including communities and the committee will be aware that in some unusual but still present circumstances some communities object and protest that states parties are making nominations notably we've had a range of complaints related to rights of indigenous peoples that the IUCN has had to recognise and it is an essential principle of the evaluation process that the transparency that is adopted in relation to states parties is a transparency that we offer to all stakeholders so that all parties in the conservation of sites at ground level which is ultimately where protection and conservation takes place can participate in this important process and we are most welcoming of the changes that were made last year to recognise the rights and the UN declaration of rights of indigenous peoples and the principle of free prior and informed consent in the nomination of sites on the territories of indigenous peoples and subsequently the new policy on sustainable development which will give a large new phase in designing ways in which we can intervene on world heritage in ways that achieve protection at ground level so that we can make sure that the aspirations of local communities within and outside world heritage sites. Madam chair with those words that concludes our presentations from the advisory bodies on the evaluation process. With just a short word I think from Mika Mosse if you have the time. Thank you. Thank you very much Mr. Badman. I thank you the representatives of the committee for the presentation on related documentation. Thank you very much Madam chair very quickly this is important next slide please is where to find related documentation on nominations specifically but not only you will have our dedicated website where you have different files part of this website where you can find working documents next slide please the evaluation of the advisory bodies when all of these will be ready will be put online but not only next slide you will also have before then the nomination files as prepared by the nominating state party for all the nominations that will be examined by the committee at this 40 session and this should be ready and available already in early April. We are at the moment including the additional information that state parties are sending to complete these nominations and February so we are still working on that next slide and you will be able then to look at the full nomination including all annexes that are submitted. Next slide very quickly to go over about the role of the where the committee is talking about nominations this is provided also in the operational guidelines paragraph 23 and 24 paragraph 23 for instance says that the committee decisions are based on objective and scientific consideration and such decision depends upon among others for instance carefully prepared documentation and this is why it is important also to have this document available on the web. Next slide one of the main functions of the committee as explained in paragraph 24 identify cultural and natural properties of outstanding value so this is one of the main functions. Next slide please but as we were saying before the committee may take four types of decision concerning nomination and I hope this will also address the question asked by the delegate of Tunisia so this four type of decision is to inscribe and this is happened as we will say before when the committee finds OUV and this is fully established with all of its required elements. It may refer back a nomination to the state parties when a piece of additional information is needed and with the referral there is no submission of a new nomination and no new visit to the site by the advisory bodies and this happens normally when for instance low concerning the protection of the site should be still adopted or maybe a management plan finalized. The committee may decide to defer a site a nomination and this is for a more in-depth assessment or study which requires a more substantial revision by the state party through the submission of a new nomination and a new full evaluation by the advisory body. In the end the last kind of decision that the committee may take is not to inscribe and if the committee decides that the property should not be inscribed on the word-attached list the nomination may not be again presented to the committee except in exceptional circumstances and these exceptional circumstances may include new discoveries new scientific information about the property or different criteria not presented in the original nomination. In this case a new nomination will have to be submitted. Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you very much Mr. Banzamo I think we can move to our next item immediately role of the word-attached committee. Mr. Banzamo you will continue? No, it's Mr. Beyon Yes, Mr. Beyon you have the floor on state of conservation process. Thank you. Thank you Madam President. So as we have seen by presenting for inscriptions on the list of World Heritage a site of exceptional universal value the state party takes a firm commitment towards the conservation of this site for the whole of humanity and the future generations. Article 4 and 6 of the Convention of the World Heritage indeed places the mandate of conservation at the heart of this and underlines the duty to preserve these goods and that of the international community in its whole. Next item Article 11.4 of the Convention establishes some dispositions relating to a statutory obligation for the committee to monitor the state of conservation of goods inscribed on the list in order to guarantee that their universal value is preserved. On this basis the dispositions for a reactive follow-up of all goods have evolved over the sessions of the committee to go from a system of ad hoc and empirical follow-up at the beginning of the 80s to a well-defined framework presented in Chapter 4 of the currently in vigour the paragraph 169 of the orientations defines the reactive follow-up as the submission to the committee of the World Heritage by the secretariat and consultative organizations on the state of conservation of goods that are threatened. This process is triggered by ad hoc, according to the threats that weigh on goods. This paragraph 169 also specifies the dates in which the state is sent to the secretariat. The paragraph 172 of the orientations, when it presents a framework facilitating the discussion and sending information by the state parties in case of management projects to have an impact on the universal value of the exceptional of goods. And in the case of information received by other sources than the state parties according to the paragraph 174 of the orientations these information are therefore communicated by the state parties concerned by the secretariat to obtain precision when it is threatened to be reported. All these paragraphs are intended to allow a better exchange of information between the state parties, the secretariat and consultative organizations and to bring a maximum of objective information to the members of the committee. Next slide. The secretariat and consultative organizations thus examine all the information they have regarding the state of conservation of goods and in a collegial way to examine and make decisions by the committee in its annual session. Next slide. Finally, to facilitate the work of the committee, your work, a standard format has been used for several years to present all these information. Each report presents basic information on goods to announce the problems of conservation currently encountered by goods an objective analysis of the situation and the conclusions of the secretariat and consultative organizations and finally a decision for adoption by the committee. With your permission, Madam President, my colleagues of consultative organizations will continue this presentation. We will continue. Thank you, Madam President. This presentation is made in the name of the three consultative organizations engaged in the follow-up of the state of conservation of goods of the world heritage. By the inscription on the list of the world heritage, the state parties are committed to protect, preserve, manage and ensure the follow-up of goods in order to achieve their exceptional universal values. Consultative organizations are committed in each of the activities that deploy the reactive follow-up to put the committee of the world heritage and the state parties a council of scientific and technical orders on the problems of conservation for the decision making of the committee. The follow-up reports of the state of conservation prepared for the committee have a very limited number of goods 141 in 2015. These reports are based on the information provided by the state parties and other sources that will have been previously verified. The objective analysis of nature and the sources of the problems of conservation is based on propositions of appropriate technical solutions. The reports followed by the state of conservation of goods are made in collaboration with the World Heritage Center. This joint work must ensure that the content of the reports responds to the technical and administrative requirements expected by the committee. In each of the consultative organizations a team of specialists prepare reports projects. They know goods and have an experience of the problems in which they are confronted. In some cases, consultative organizations can call other specialists members of their network who can bring a knowledge on very specific aspects of conservation to complete this work. The factors that influence the exceptional universal value are transmitted by physical attributes of processes and sometimes associations are multiple. They cover a wide range that goes from material degradation to large-scale works to the use of biological resources by passing, among other things, by management. Thus, the reports prepared for each session of the committee propose in addition relative to the selection of goods a synthesis of emerging and recurring observations. These reports are presented jointly with the center of the world at the committee on the occasion of its annual session. It is a very short presentation which opens the discussions of the committee. Consultative organizations can then be called to answer the technical questions of the committee members. We have noted that the process of reactive follow-up must be as proactive as possible. It must also have the most precise tools just like the most clear methodology to evaluate the impact of threats on the exceptional universal value and its attributes. It must be implemented as soon as possible in order to minimize the impact on goods. To do this, tools are put at the disposal of state parties in the form of publications. Thus, in recent years, progress has been made in this domain with the retrospective statements of exceptional universal value, the co-production with the center of the world heritage of reference manuals on management, the management of the risks of catastrophes, or the orientations of the ICN and the ICOMOS for the establishment of impact studies. The strategy for strengthening the capacity with more particularly its courses for practitioners joins these devices. The process of reactive follow-up is predisposed to a positive and constructive dialogue with state parties around real problems. This commitment to state parties takes place, especially during the course of reactive follow-up and advice requested by the committee of the World Parliament. We are committed to supporting state parties in their work to achieve the objectives defined by the World Heritage Committee. The exchanges between state parties, the World Heritage Center and the consultative organizations can also take the form of work meetings which are organized, especially around the committee sessions. Technical studies carried out by consultative organizations on the basis of documents in response to Paragraph 172 of the orientations and the advice mission requested by the state parties in person to study specific projects are in such a way to engage in a dialogue with state parties. Nevertheless, we will have to discuss how the mechanism of Paragraph 172 could become more useful and more viable. We also need more opportunities to explore the state of conservation of goods that are threatened by a gradual erosion of their attributes in time. We must in the same time align the limitations in terms of resources to develop a more proactive engagement with state parties. To conclude, consultative organizations wish to align that the follow-up process should pay attention to all the relevant parties in the best way to use shared experience and international cooperation to solve the problems of conservation. Thank you. Thank you very much Madame Boudin for that presentation. Mr. Batman, will you have another presentation or it was the joint press? You will have. Thank you Chair. I was asked to just say a few words on the list of World Heritage in Danger as part of this orientation so if we move to the next slide please. So the list of World Heritage in Danger is the second list of the World Heritage Committee maintains given the title of the Convention Focused on Protection one could say it will become the most important focus of the Committee as it signals the sites which require urgent action where they are threatened and currently 48 sites so nearly 5% of the World Heritage list are included on the list of World Heritage in Danger 30 cultural sites and 18 natural sites and these are discussed under item 7a of the Committee's agenda. Next slide please. The key points just to take from these 5 slides are firstly that it's a call for action and it includes the following components so the Committee should pay attention where sites are listed as in Danger to firstly the measures that are needed to correct the situation and secondly the timeline wherein those measures might be acted upon. And if we can move to the next slide please for every site the goal is now to have a desired state of conservation set for the removal of a site from the list in Danger. This is a cooperative definition of the level of recovery that is needed by a site to be removed from the Danger list produced by the World Heritage Centre the advisory bodies and the state party that has its site listed in the operation and adopted formally by the World Heritage Committee. So this provides, the goal here is to provide a clear indication of what the state should be of recovery for a site to be removed from the Danger list. Next slide please. Next slide. So this is just lastly to note the fact that we wish to reinforce that the Danger list, which we conceived is a central element of the World Heritage Convention it is not foreseen and was never foreseen as a punishment or a criticism of state's parties it is an instrument to promote conservation action for threatened sites and we've seen as one very good example the National Park of Los Cateos in Colombia which was listed in 2009 at the request of the state party of Colombia for a range of reasons this slide here a desired state of conservation for removal of this site was set in 2012 with indicators related to both existing and potential threats and the last slide please this shows just a very few words how in this instance Colombia was able to work with the committee to use the fact of Danger listing to raise political awareness of the issues in the threats to the properties and to secure both international and greater national support for actions that were needed to restore its management and this was then a site where we could see that the committee was able to remove it from the list in Danger with a recommendation made by OECN that that should happen at the committee last year so it's the latest in some of the good examples of seeing the Danger list as a conservation tool and perhaps the most important conservation tool the committee has to really address the sites that are most threatened on the World Heritage List. Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you very much Mr. Badman for your very interesting presentation I think representative would like to have the floor. You have the floor Madam. Thank you Madam Chair. First of all I would like to congratulate that you can count on our support in your endeavour. Our expert from the capital would like to have a question. Thank you Madam Chair. I'm not sure whether it's the right point to ask a question or not but we would appreciate very much if it would be possible for the sense and advisory bodies to give us a list of state of conservation reports as soon as they are agreed to be prepared for the committee session just the list of names of the sites which are going to be reported for the committee session so we can use the time and get prepared just before all the documents are issued so if it's not a big burden and it's possible that we would appreciate very much. Thank you. Madam Röster you have the floor. Thank you Madam Chair. We have a problem so we can send this to the committee members. We are about to finalize it but just one word of caution there may be some emergencies these can happen but the list is about to be finalized. Thank you very much. I have the floor on related documentation and all of the work that is on the agenda. There is no next. In the context of reactive follow-up and for an objective and informed decision it is necessary to examine a certain number of documents the reports submitted by the state party or a summary of course the mission reports and the decisions previously adopted by the committee to ensure a coherent follow-up of the decisions adopted and of course the reports submitted by the secretary and the consultative organizations. Next slide. All of these documents are on the internet site at the address indicated at the top of the screen. Note that the reports of the secretary and consultative organizations are made public six weeks before the committee session in order to allow you a deep examination of the questions raised. There is no next. Finally, the World Patronage Center proposes for a few years now an online and public information system where you can find all the information previously mentioned as well as the total of nearly 3,200 reports presented by the committee since 1979. You will also find the guides Emmanuel and note of orientation indicated by my colleague in his presentation. Next slide. In order to introduce this point on your role in terms of following the state of conservation I could not find a better quote than a paragraph from 1977 at the very origin of the convention and which said the responsibilities of the committee of the World Patronage Center are immense but there is no more important challenge to be raised. There is no task that deserves as much as the action in the name of the peoples of the world to help the states to protect for future generations what is natural having an exceptional universal value. Next slide. In order to do this you will have to make a decision on each state of conservation that will be presented in terms of paragraph 166 of the orientation. You can decide for example that no action should be taken if the good does not deteriorate or if it is not safe to take the necessary measures to reduce threats in a reasonable time or that the state keeps the secretary informed of the necessary measures by the help of a new report if needed according to a well-defined calendar Finally, you can also ask that an expert mission be sent on the site so that a better informed decision is adopted. Next slide. Finally, as Lausiane explains earlier when the conditions require it you can decide to insert a good on the list in peril or to maintain it if its state of conservation is not enough to improve it. On the contrary, if the state of conservation of good is improved in such a way that its exceptional universal value is no longer humanized you can then decide to remove this good from the list of world patterns in peril Last but not least in case of evident deterioration of good to the point where it has irreversibly lost its characteristics and justified its inscription you can decide to remove this good from the list of world patterns. Next slide. In conclusion, to restore your role in the most effective way possible you must be in perfect control of the positions of the convention and the orientations of the statutory and budgetary explanations of each of the decisions that you will make. On the other hand, you can remain sure that all the analyses made for your account of the part of the secretariat and consultative organizations are made in a deep and with all the skills and expertise necessary to facilitate your work. We are well aware of your disposition for all additional information. Thank you. Thank you very much. The Republic of Korea is asking for the floor. You have the floor. Thank you Madam Chair. First of all, congratulations for your chairmanship. We are certain that with your leadership this year's committee will be successful. Secondly, I would like to thank you for secretary and all advisory bodies that this orientation is very useful. My question is about the progress report or implementation report reviewing the past decisions of committee that in many cases of progress report or implementation report we catch to the state party which has many recommendations or we catch to the summit at a certain time to the committee. I have two questions on this subject and the first one that progress report is categorized as state of conservation report or other items which are agenda items in the committee dealing with the examination of progress report. The second question that the committee examine the progress report before the committee examine the report are there any role or responsibility of secretary or advisory bodies to check how progress report by the certain state party fully accommodate the request of recommendation decided by the committee. Thank you. Director Rushler with response to your question you have this floor Madam. Thank you very much and also thank you for the question raised by the Republic of Korea concerning progress reports. In each of the decisions the committee takes on a state of conservation you can see this in the reports of the committee it's very specific if they ask for a full state of conservation report or progress report or whatever it is so it depends on each of the cases if we are here under the item state of conservation you raise the question in terms of progress reports on state of conservation. Now we have established also a new procedure with reports which were due now on the 1st of December so which means that the secretary has looked at these reports and if he felt that something was missing we would also get back some of these but to tell you from the practice is that only when we write the state of conservation reports together with our advisory bodies we may detect some of the issues which were not fully covered but this we discuss in the document which we present to the World Heritage Committee but we try to establish similar to the process on the nominations further dialogue with state parties we see some quite good outcomes on that. I hope this answers your question. Thank you. Madame Rosina, thank you very much for the explanation and yes Poland would like to take the floor you have the floor Madame. Thank you I would like to ask whether I think ECOMOS state parties are receiving technical review of the conservation report and I would like to ask about the stages of the reports are they are going to be reported to the committee at some point where we are in the system with this reviews how we should treat them and how should be reported them to stakeholders and site managers There are different types of reports because some of the reports that we have been requested by the World Heritage Committee not for being reported back to the World Heritage Committee but for technical reviews. These concerns also for example in the case when the committee requests a management plan to be submitted by that and that date it doesn't necessarily go back to the World Heritage Committee but it could go back if the technical review by the advisory bodies and their guidance et cetera and there may be a reason why we could bring it back maybe the advisory bodies or Peter you want to comment also the question raised by the representative of Poland refers to the technical reviews the advisory bodies produce with reference to paragraph 1 and 72 of the operational guidelines these are technical reviews on documentation that is produced by the State Party and that are reviewed by specialists within the advisory body. So these technical reviews are transmitted to the World Heritage Centre for distribution to the State Party's concerns. And as the Director of the World Heritage Centre this is a process by which we establish consultation with the State Parties regarding specific technical issues at World Heritage Properties. And in some cases few of them come to the committee level because there are certain questions that the committee should be involved with and take decisions regarding technical aspects. Thank you Director Röster and Madame Borden for your explanations. I think we have concluded our section dealing with state of conservation so we can move to the fourth section of our agenda which is on procedural matters and I would like to invite Madame Petia Toczarewa to speak to make a presentation on the rules of procedure as well as conduct of the World Heritage Committee session. You have the floor Madame, thank you. Thank you very much Madame Chair. Actually this is a topic, procedural matter is a topic that we address in more depth during the orientation session that will take place in Istanbul on the 10th of July just prior to the starting of the 40th session of the committee. At this point of time we just want to flag a couple of issues and provide some information, answer questions if you have any inquiries on those matters. Next slide please. Basically what we wanted to share with you and to insist once again is what are the documents that you have to be fully aware of and to have a very very good knowledge of them in order to do your work in the most efficient way during the committee sessions. These are of course the World Heritage Convention or the convention concerning the protection of the world natural and cultural heritage as it was highlighted by ICROM which is the official title. The operational guidelines, the rules of procedure of the committee and while we don't say that this has to be a bed night table reading from here to the committee it's really important that all the delegations and the technical experts are well aware of the provisions of all those documents where you can find them. They are available, there are copies available here some printed copies for you but basically you could find those on the website of the World Heritage Center and you see the little arrows which show the convention text and the operational guidelines of the committee. Let me just remind that the operational guidelines were revised in a rather substantial manner at the 39th session in Bonn last year so the version which is the valid one is the 2015 version of the operational guidelines. Same with the rules of procedure, they have some minor amendments, adjustments of the rules of procedure so this is also the version of 2015. Then we also on that matter I just wanted to tell you that in order to facilitate your work in dealing with quite substantial documents and heavy documents especially the operational guidelines the World Heritage Center is going to put all those documents together in the booklet of basic texts of the convention which will include the operational guidelines, the rules of procedure, the convention also the rules of procedure of the general assembly and some other important documents so you would be able to have just one manual or one book in front of you instead of looking at different documents and we shall really let you know when this is ready. Next slide please. As far as the organization of the 40th session is concerned we shall of course hear the presentation of the first country now but it's important to know from that all the important details will be included in the general information document which you will receive with the invitation letters for the session and we expect that will happen around the end of March beginning of April the information in this document will mostly be provided by the State Party and I'm sure they're going to address it. Further information will be provided concerning the session will be provided during the information and exchange session which we have planned for end of May beginning of June 2016 at UNESCO headquarters and where we shall be able to get much more details from the host country. As to the session itself for those that have already been members for the last two years they're well aware of the very heavy, very tight agenda of the committee meeting and they know that they would not have a lot of time free they would be busy since the morning until the evening with working groups at lunchtime quite often with side events also at lunchtime and in the evening so that's going to be prepare yourself for a rather intensive work. Of course you know that they start with a Bureau session in the morning so we have the World Heritage Committee Bureau which consists of the chair, the rapporteur and five vice chairs we have plenary sessions for the timetable that will be sent to you with the invitation letters starting at 9.30 until 1.00 then we shall probably have at lunchtime meetings of the so-called consultative bodies budget with the operational guidelines depending on the issues that are coming and meanwhile prepare yourselves also for a number of interesting side events if we go to the next slide if we go to the next slide you will see a snapshot of the page of the 40th session of the World Heritage site and you see where you can find the documents for the session of course we shall send further information where you'd be able to find the documents but the main information that is there is the description of the session and all the logistical issues and also documents for the time being the documents are in preparation and you will receive them according to the schedule which is established six weeks before the committee session next slide now concerning the rules of procedure as I mentioned in the beginning and I think this is what I'm going to end with those would be discussed really in more detail in the presence of a representative of legal affairs during the orientation session on the 10th of July and many of the issues that are mentioned on the slide will be discussed in further detail and you have of course the possibility to ask questions and request more detailed information all of them are important they are important for the chairperson, for the committee for the bureau, it's the order speaking time limit for interventions the duties of the chair and the rapporteur the conduct of business, quorum, voting and so on and so forth we do believe that it would be very useful if you have any questions before the session or from here until the committee the secretariat is ready to respond to any questions you may have and if there are any legal issues or legal questions of course we can consult LA here we have, if we go to the next slide I think this is just a memory of the orientation session which we had just prior to the 37th session in Phnom Penh and this is what is going to happen on the 10th of July from 3 to 5.30 if I'm not wrong so these are the several elements that we wanted to brief you on really briefly if you have any questions we can respond further or ask as the time goes and as we approach the session thank you very much madam chair thank you very much madam I think Burkina representative of Burkina is asking for the floor you have the floor madam thank you madam the president I would like to have you as well for your designation for the president of our committee and your wishes and full success during our work as a new member of the committee we followed with interest all the information that has been communicated and in this title I just wanted to come back to a point because a new member I don't know how it works it concerns the interaction between the members the committee experts once the documents are communicated before the session there is an interaction between the members of the committee with the consultative organizations where it is only at the moment of the session that the exchanges take place this is my first question and my second question is more about the description proposal and on the site it mainly concerns the natural sites it can happen that a natural site goes through 2 or 3 states at this moment how is the management of the file, of the inscription can only one state take the initiative to prepare the file with the secretary the assembly knowing that there are other states that are involved or there needs to be a collective preparation to submit the file until the end of the process that's my concern for the moment thank you Madam President Director Rochner with response to your question Madam Rochner Thank you very much for your question you can have a continuous interaction with the advisory bodies we encourage very much through the whole process of thinking ahead that we have a dialogue between the advisory bodies the committee member all states parties and the World Heritage Center so that is always possible if you have specific questions but there are these occasions like this one the orientation session the information session the next orientation session where you can ask specific questions on processes if there are questions on specific dossiers you would need to contact also the specific advisory body and I will also ask them if they have maybe another answer to give concerning transnational nominations and I actually know very well what you are referring to because I have been working in that specific site in 1996 and I was just back to Burkina Faso for the new year this is a site which concerns three countries it was nominated first for one country and that is Niger and the site was inscribed by the committee it's actually a very interesting example for many other state parties it was inscribed by the committee against the advice of IUCN which wanted to have the other two states parties joining the proposal that the committee took the decision to inscribe that part on its own and it was recognized from the advisory bodies however the committee made the encouragement for the other two countries to prepare the nomination and I think this is what is happening so there are different processes and procedures but the best way to go is of course to work from the beginning jointly with the other countries to prepare joint management to address the challenges together maybe the advisory bodies would like to add something on that you have the floor I think the answer on the transbandries sites is perhaps there's a precision just that when a transbandry in general when a site is nominated by more than one state party all the states parties must support the nomination but it's taken on the quota of one of the nominating states parties and the parties can decide who that party should be but just to turn to the first question so we are open for any support which any committee member may wish to request from us at any time we are not here based in Paris IHCN is based three hours away on the TGV near Geneva you're all welcome as are any states parties to the convention to visit us there we are here in Paris and if there is anything we can do to answer any questions at any time interact with your nature experts at any time please don't hesitate to request that the more discussion and interaction there is in preparation for the committee the better and there's no real obstacles to that discussion taking place in whatever way would be helpful to you so please don't hesitate to request that if it would be helpful to you thank you so I think we can move to our next section which is on future session of the orientation session I think representative of IKROM Mr. King will present this item thank you Mr. King thank you very much Madam Chair I won't spend a long time on this but I think it's useful for me to just give you a few considerations in relation to the orientation sessions and as I mentioned at the beginning before I started talking about OUV to try to look at these in a more integrated or well let's use the word integrated way over a period of I would say two years why do I say two years because every two years there are elections in the General Assembly of States parties for new committee members so there's a turn over at that point in time obviously it's not a turn over of the entire committee but it's a turn over of a certain percentage of the committee but clearly what that means is that as new members come in then there's a need to go back and repeat information for those new members or to give new information to those members as we're trying to do as we're trying to do here but it may not be necessary for that same information to be conveyed in subsequent orientation sessions so this is a discussion that we've been having you've probably been having with the other advisory bodies and the World Heritage Center to try to think a little bit about how we organize these sessions over the course of a two year cycle in general just for information there are generally per year approximately three moments when there can be some sort of an orientation or information exchange at this kind of a level like we're having now and those three times per year are one session in January or February which is what we're having actually right now oftentimes that is attached to the advisory body meetings that isn't the case this year but oftentimes it is related to the meetings that we have at the World Heritage Center in January so that's the first occasion where we can do it the second occasion as has already been mentioned a number of times by the secretary it is the information meetings that will take place usually in May sometimes beginning of June I don't know exactly what the dates are going to be this year but there's that information meeting which also takes place here in Paris and the third occasion is just before the committee meeting in the venue of the committee so in this case for this year just before the committee session starts so those are the three occasions in a year where these kinds of orientation sessions can take place the other two things for consideration by the committee are where are committee members at a particular point in time why do I say that well this session here in Paris is very useful and specifically for delegations that are here based in Paris I know that in some cases there are people sitting here who are coming from experts from capitals coming from the country specifically for these sessions but certainly that's also very difficult for at least some committee members to be sending their their experts let's say to a session in Paris which is only going to take place for half a day so that's one question also that we have to think about is where are the people who would benefit from these orientation sessions and that's something for us to keep in mind and then the third issue to keep in mind also is who else might benefit from these and committee members especially will benefit from procedural issues as just been presented by the World Heritage Center and issues that when we get to them in July in terms of speaking order and making amendments and things like that are benefits clearly to the committee but we also have to think about whether there are other states parties that might benefit on some issues so these are things that I would ask committee members to keep in mind as we think about how we want to organize these orientation sessions for the future so in the short moment what I wanted to just talk about is at least for this first cycle of three for this year how we're thinking about things obviously we're coming to the end of this session so in this session we've done some basic information again outlining what is outstanding universal value and the processes for nominations the requirements for nominations and state of conservation and then a few of the procedural matters so that we've covered in this particular session there will be an information session as has already been brought out on several occasions already today there will be an information session toward the end of May or the beginning of June and during that session as the secretary has already pointed out there will certainly be a let's call it an organizational and preparational issues for the 40th session of the committee much more information specifically related to how the 40th session will be organized there was also some discussion one of the questions that has been raised by committee members in the past is they would like to also maybe have a brief a brief briefing on the budget situation in relation to the in relation to the committee and that also there might be a possibility for some sort of a brief a brief briefing excuse me that's a bad way of saying it but in relation to budget issues at that information meeting and then we were thinking also that it would be useful to at that moment cover a couple of what I would call content related issues and again in terms of requests from committee members in the past one of the issues that has come up is the issue of gap analysis and balance of the list and so we were thinking that might be an interesting an interesting short presentation to make the work that the advisory bodies are making on the gap analysis and specifically on the balance of the list and as we are entering into a reflection year for periodic reporting that is we've now finished the second cycle and we have to go into a reflection year that also might be something that that would be useful to talk about at that at that moment so that would be for the information meeting and then we get to the July meeting and the orientation session for the July meeting and to be honest in that respect my idea was to actually divide this into sort of two let's say clearly all committee members for the July session will need to have information in relation to the venue itself and procedures so things like speaking and voting and how do you make amendments and those sorts of things and I think that's something that actually bears repeating every year because committee members will be coming and will be needing to speak and will be needing to make amendments and will be needing to vote so I think that's something that's always going to be going to be useful I think also in years where operational guidelines have been changed as is the case last year it would also be useful for there to be a short presentation on those changes and how it might actually affect decision making and again maybe also a short briefing on the budget but then the idea would be to also talk a little bit more about content and content related issues and actually Burkina Faso raised this issue of serial sites one of the questions I know that is often being raised not specifically for your one site but in general is how do serial sites work and what are the issues related both to their nomination but also related to the state of conservation once they're on the World Heritage List how does that work when there are issues that come up for state of conservation so the idea would be maybe to have a brief presentation on that issue of serial sites and one of the other requests that the committee has been making in the past would be that maybe some committee members might be able to in relation to some of the topics that we talk about maybe make a presentation so in that case maybe it would be useful to find a committee member who has an interesting issue related to serial sites or who has had an interesting experience related to serial sites who might be able to make a presentation also at that moment so that would be the first part of that session and that would be for all committee members in the first instance but then what we were thinking was maybe taking a short break to allow for a second part of that session which would actually then go back and repeat some of the things that we've already been doing here because there may be members of your delegation who are not here today but who do need to have or would be useful for them to have a repetition of the presentation on what is outstanding universal value and a repetition of some of the issues related to the nominations and the state of conservation so that wouldn't be for those of you that you've already sat through there could be a break and people could go away but then for those people who are interested in specifically hearing that sort of second phase and going over some of the things that we've already gone over there would be a possibility actually to have that we're not talking about long sessions but this is at least one way to try to make sure that we tailor the sessions to the needs of the committee members and again where they may be at any particular time and what I actually would like to propose is I would like to propose to open a dialogue with you the committee members on how you would like to proceed with these in the future these are the ideas that we have and I would say we can have a discussion here if you would like or you can contact ECROM outside of the outside of this particular meeting so that we can actually try to develop a much more constructive and useful or set of orientation sessions that are going to be useful to you members in your decision making because that's really why we're here is to make things useful for you the committee members and help you in your decision making processes so that's where I would stop now and again ask if there are any questions or any comments that might be useful at this point thank you Madam Chair thank you very much Mr. King any questions so we can move to the last item of our agenda today there will be a brief presentation by the post country on the logistical arrangements of the forthcoming 48th session of World Heritage Committee before giving my the floor to my colleague Mr. Caheol I would like to just point out that immediately following the bone session of the committee in Turkey a task force an institutional task force is established for the preparation of the forthcoming session of our committee this task force is working in close cooperation with World Heritage Center I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the World Heritage Center for their cooperation and Mr. Caheol a member of the Foreign Service of our country is the coordinator of this task force for the preparation of the forthcoming session I give the floor to Mr. Caheol for his thank you Chair so my name is Jim Caheol I'm the head of departments for cultural diplomacy at the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs so you will see my contact information on the screen in a few minutes so before we proceed please be advised that my presentation is only a preliminary one on some of the logistical aspects of the 14th session you will find ample information in the information document that you will receive in the invitation letter moreover as our chair I'm sorry chairperson announced during the information exchange session to be held in either early June or late May we will provide you with all logistical information let's move on please so Turkey ratified the convention on 1983 it is the second time we are a member of the committee since our first term between 1983 and 1989 Turkey has 15 cultural and natural properties inscribed on the list as you see on the screen they are spread all over the territory the sites inscribed represent several layers of Anatolian civilizations and include Hellenistic, Roman Byzantine, Armenian Seljuk and Ottoman masterpieces of art and history next slide please Turkey will be hosting the World Heritage Committee session for the first time we have chosen Istanbul as the host city this is experienced in organizing major international events of big scale such as UN, NATO and OSCE summits following the decision of the committee last year we set up an interagency body now you are seeing the logos of the different stakeholders Ministry of Foreign Affairs is naturally the leading institution along with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism you have the national commission just in the middle along with the Istanbul Greater Municipality and the site management for Turkish historic peninsula and we have also the Turkish Airlines as partner a company which by every measure is recognized as one of the best airlines in the world next slide please you already know your chairperson Ambassador Lali Rukes next please you have my name and my contact details don't hesitate to contact for any information next please now we see the draft timetable of the 14th session the registration in person will start in the afternoon the day before the opening it means 9 of July as usual site events can be organized before and after the formal sitting of the committee and during the lunch break as well next slide please here you see the very simple plan of Istanbul you see the historical peninsula that is inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1985 up above the venue of the session and also the hotels area are indicated please note that Istanbul has two international airports the first one is the Atatürk airport that you see at the left of the plan the second one is called Sabiha Gökçen and is located at the Asian side of the city because of the flight frequency the most practical way to come down to Istanbul is to fly at the Turkish airport however should participants prefer flights to the second airport for financial reasons because from time to time flights to Sabiha Gökçen may be discounted so there are regular shuttles from there to Taksim area where both the congress center and an important number of good hotels are situated before arriving to Istanbul maybe we can develop on the visa cluster in 131 of 190 state parties other than Turkey there is Turkish embassy now the less delegates requiring a visa to enter Turkey regardless of whether Turkey is represented in their country or not we will establish visa facilitation if not a total exemption details of such system will be discussed first internally in Turkey and then communicated to state parties most probably with the information documents next slide please so as you see the venue of the 14th session the main hotel and other options for accommodation are located almost side by side within a very short walking distance next please the Istanbul congress center is one of the newest and most modern multi-purpose complexes of Istanbul it spans a surface of 120,000 square meters on a total of five floors next please the center can host a wide range of events from congress and face to exhibitions it has also an out-to-area overlooking the bosporus where we are planning to organize the opening event next please next again the auditorium of the center is the biggest meeting hall with a capacity of 3,555 persons this hall is currently one of the options available in our hands for the planning session but we have different options as well within the same congress center move on please so at the congress center there are multi-purpose meeting halls foyer event areas and workshop rooms varying in capacities and sizes between 17 and 168 square meters the total number of halls and rooms reserved to side events is 64 please next slide next again next again again again so here is a brief presentation of services that will be given at the meeting venue so there is high-speed one-time connection, open services banking and exchange services bilateral meeting rooms delegates lounge host office, first aid so on there was some information and tour desks or offices next please the main accommodation center will be Hilton hotel Hilton which is the first ever Hilton outside US it is opened in 1955 it was also the first modern hotel in Europe built from the ground up in the aftermath of World War II but it is renovated since then so participants who will be staying at Hilton will have easy access to the venue of the meeting since each one lies adjacent to another the last day for the reservation is the 10th of June for Hilton and other hotels participants will have special rates next slide please so in Istanbul the number of hotels with certification from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is 705 the total bed capacity exceeds 140,000 171 hotels have 4 stars while the number of 5 start hotels is 123 so as a result participants will have a multitude of choice for instance within a distance of 1 km from the meeting venue there are 23 hotels of 4 and 5 stars come on please so here are some keywords that will allow you to find hotels that are close to the meeting center attention those are not the names of hotels but only names of the areas which are close to or surrounding the Istanbul congress center so you have Beyoğlu which is the main para avenue or bouvard you have Taksim which is one of the major places of Istanbul or square of Istanbul and you have Shishane, Talimane and Tarlabaşı these are all names of the neighborhoods of areas surrounding the Istanbul congress center but in any case in the information document that you will receive along with the invitation letter you will be given a single reservation link where you will find all categories of hotels with discounted rates next slide please so Istanbul is a huge megacity with some 15 million inhabitants although the traffic is often unpredictable it is congested however during the time we will have our session the city will be less crowded in addition to the subway system city bus, sea bus and ferry tram and taxi are frequently used in Istanbul the taxi is not expensive anyhow each and every participant will be delivered free of charge a special pass called Istanbul Cards it can be used in every means of transport except taxi there will also be enough ring services between the Taksim hotel area and the meeting venue for physically challenged persons next slide please so I don't need to talk to describe Istanbul to you Neolithic artifacts uncovered recently indicate that Istanbul was settled as far back as the 7th millennium before Christ it is a transcontinental between Europe and what Roman Empire called the Asia Minor we can move on Istanbul was the capital of three empires namely Eastern Roman Byzantine and Ottoman the city is crowned by monumental masterpieces from Byzantine and Ottoman periods such as the legendary Hagia Sophia and the blue mask and all participants will be provided with free access to state museums in Istanbul during the length of the session it may be in form of a card a special card or by showing simply the committee badge at the entrance of each museum next please next again please and the youth forum will be held in Istanbul and Bursa between 29 June and 12 July the invitation letters were sent on by the Turkish National Commission to UNESCO to the counterparts in member states of the committee and finally please e-mail addresses regarding all aspects of the session are shown on the screen so you have for the general information info at 408C 2016. Istanbul for registration you have registration the rest is the same accommodation side events and youth forum YF the extension is always the same 408C 2016. Istanbul and as I told you before you can also contact me for all the information you will need main text for your attention thank you very much Cem for your presentation we have already concluded all the items of our agenda but of course the floor is open for the questions of the member countries as well as the state parties if you have any Azerbaijan you have the floor ambassador thank you Madam Chair first of all I would like to congratulate you to the post of the chairperson of this committee I am confident that under your chairmanship and with the traditional Turkish hospitality the session of this committee will be successful one as a new members of the committee Azerbaijan is looking forward to work with you Madam Chair with the secretariat with advisory bodies and with other members of the committee for successful implementation of the World Heritage Convention using this opportunity I would like to thank secretariat advisory body and the host country Turkey for this information session which is indeed very useful for us especially for new members we really are eager to work in this committee with full support of other members of the committee and last but not least Madam Ambassador I would like to add my voice and to express our deepest condolences and solidarity with the Turkey and the Turkish people on this terrible acts of terror in Ankara yesterday which claimed many innocent lives our praise with you thank you very much Ambassador thank you very much first of all for your very kind words and your strong support and confidence to the Turkish chairmanship for the World Heritage Committee also I thank you and I thank again to the representative of Portugal for their words of sympathy and condolences for this vicious terrorist attack that took place in Ankara the solidarity among all states and parties are quite important for our fight against terrorism and we all know that no country no city is immune of this vicious terrorist attacks taking place all over the world so thank you again for your words of sympathy thank you very much Ambassador and I don't see any so before closing formally closing our orientation session I would like to take this opportunity first of all to thank our secretariat the members of the World Heritage Center as well as the members of the three advisory bodies for their very comprehensive total presentations on different aspects very crucial aspects of our convention as well as on the work of the committee it was very enlightening for me I'm sure it was the same case for our new members of course we will have another briefing session at the end of May or beginning of June and orientation session will take place just immediately before prior to our committee meeting so in the meantime I'm sure the secretariat as well as the representatives of the advisory bodies are very open any question or remark or any request for clarification coming from the member countries as well as the state parties I really would like to express my gratitude Madame Rosler for this orientation session and I'm formally closing the orientation session but Director Rosler she has a surprise for you that's why I give the floor to Director Rosler Thank you very much Madame Chair and thank you also on behalf of the whole team and the advisory bodies for your kind words it's a pleasure for us to organize these sessions but as the chair person said we have a little surprise because we would like to present to you the publication World Heritage in Europe today on this day this was a fantastic publication which was prepared by Petya Totscharova who was the chief of Europe in North America from 2010 to 2015 and this publication was written by Christopher Young, Katri Lisitzin and Pierre Calant these were three experts which were involved in the analysis of the results of the second cycle of periodic reporting in Europe along with Anatole Anatole is in the room somewhere he's waving from the World Heritage Center now this is a new quite innovative format for World Heritage Publications on periodic reporting which uses the outcome of this exercise to connect with a much broader audience because as you know periodic reporting publications are usually very technical and target a very small specialist audience but this is an opportunity to use the large amount of data from new committee members and state parties gathered through periodic reporting to show what it actually means to be a World Heritage property in Europe today the need for this publication was clear from the data of periodic reporting because as you have seen at the last session of the committee the general awareness of the convention and its practical implications was rated as poor and singled out in the need of urgent attention so this publication is exceptional because it's not a technical report on periodic reporting nor a management manual which we have already but it uses this data this very complex data gathered through periodic reporting to present a simple easy to grasp photograph of the current situation of World Heritage properties in Europe and in so doing in the awareness of World Heritage implies for a broader audience this book is intended for anyone with an interest in World Heritage and especially those who are not part of the normal World Heritage circles and that includes notably representatives of local authorities who may be thinking about preparing World Heritage nominations as the publication covers key facts about the implications of an inscription on the World Heritage list or maybe newly appointed focal points or site managers or heritage professionals looking for good practice examples or strategies for partnerships or support I'm also happy to report to you that some attention has been paid to gender equality in this new publication with specific gender disaggregated data etc. and case studies as well Now the book is available in English and French Complementary copies are available today for the World Heritage committee members and our UNESCO bookstore has a special discount for all other interested persons at 50% discount so it's only 12 euros 50 Both language versions are available for free download from the World Heritage Centres webpage from the Europe and North America page which hopefully is coming up on the screen and this launch of the book is also an opportunity to launch a new hashtag which is our World Heritage which will be celebrated with an Instagram photo and story competition as you know we try to have a new policy to reach out also to the young people and people around the world are invited to photograph themselves at World Heritage sites and share a story about how they are engaged with it the winners will receive a UNESCO gift basket, I wonder what's in there as well as a free copy of the publication and we really hope that this will inspire many people around the world to communicate about World Heritage and we will feature the entries on the World Heritage website so I'm very honored Madam Chair to share one of the first copies of this book fresh from the press it's still warm, thank you so much Thank you so much Thank you very much, Madam Rossner, it was really a very nice surprise, thank you thank you for the book now I would like to close our first orientation session I would like to thank the secretariat and the advisory bodies again and also I would like to thank all the members of the committee the representative of the members of the committee as well as the state parties hope to see you again at the end of May or beginning of June thank you very much I'm closing the session