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         <title>World Heritage Committee Inscribes 61 New Sites on World Heritage List</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Cairns - UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage Committee, meeting since November 27 in Cairns, Australia, has inscribed 61 new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage. The List now has 690 sites of &amp;quot;exceptional universal value&amp;quot; in 122 countries. Sites in Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Nicaragua and Suriname are on the List for the first time. Ten of the new sites are properties inscribed for natural values, 50 are inscribed for cultural values, and one site exhibits mixed cultural and natural  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/184</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee Adds Three Sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Cairns - On the third day of its 24th session, the World Heritage Committee added three sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger. The three sites, the Historic Town of Zabid (Yemen), the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary (Senegal) and the Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore (Pakistan), were the subject of extensive discussion during the previous day&apos;s deliberations on the state of conservation of World Heritage sites. Historic Town of Zabid (Yemen). A former capital of Yemen, from the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/167</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee opens 24th Session in Cairns, Australia, Elects New 7 Members Bureau</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Cairns, Australia - The World Heritage Committee today opened its 24th annual session in Cairns, Australia. The meeting, hosted by the Australian Federal government and the government of the State of Queensland, was attended by over 320 people. The meeting was attended by all twenty-one members of the World Heritage Committee: Australia, Belgium, Benin, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Republic of Korea, South  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/166</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee to Hold 24th Annual Session in Cairns, Australia, November 27 - December 2</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee will hold its 24th annual session from November 27 to December 2 in Cairns, Australia, during which it will inscribe new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List and review the List of World Heritage in Danger. The intergovernmental World Heritage Committee consists of 21 States Parties elected for a term of six years by the General Assembly of the 161 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention. The Committee members who will meet this year in  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/162</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Chairman of World Heritage Committee Named as Candidate for post of Director-General of UNESCO</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Paris - UNESCO&apos;s 58-member Executive Board - whose 157th session opened on October 5 - today nominated, in the third round of voting, Koichiro Matsuura as its candidate for the post of UNESCO Director-General, to replace the present Director General Federico Mayor at the end of his second 6-year mandate. Mr Matsuura&apos;s candidacy will be submitted to the approval of UNESCO&apos;s General Conference on November 12. Born in 1937 in Tokyo, Koichiro Matsuura trained in law (Faculty of Law, Tokyo  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/183</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>President of Mexico Announces Decision to Halt Saltworks Project at World Heritage Site, El Vizcaino Whale Sanctuary</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The President of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, announced on 2 March 2000 that the development of the proposed saltworks at San Ignacio would not proceed. The decision was made following the international UNESCO expert mission to the site in August 1999. The results of the mission were presented to, and adopted by, the World Heritage Committee at its twenty-third session held in Marrakesh (Morocco) from 29 November to 4 December 1999. The experts considered a variety of issues including the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/150</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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