UNESCO meeting beginning tomorrow in Saudi Arabia will decide whether Venice is added to World Heritage in Danger list.
Venice, a city that has fascinated tourists for centuries, may be added this month to UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list.
A 21-member UNESCO committee will make that decision at a meeting beginning Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The committee plans to review more than 200 sites and determine which ones should be added to the danger list.Copyright 2014 AP. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Earlier this summer, UNESCO experts released a document proposing to include Venice and its lagoon on the list. The document said the city had failed to make enough progress to prevent damage from mass tourism, climate change and development projects. The Saudi meeting, which is officially called “the extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee,” runs through Sept. 25. The 21 members who will make the determination about Venice and other sites are from Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia.
UNESCO experts regularly review the state of 1,157 World Heritage sites — sites deemed to have “outstanding universal value.” Fifty-five of them are currently on the World Heritage in Danger list.
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