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         <title>The Director-General signs a funds-in-trust agreement for the restoration of the historical centre of Gjirokastra in Albania</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On 15 December 2006, Mr Ko&#xef;chiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and Ambassador Tatjana Gjonaj, Permanent Delegate of Albania to UNESCO, signed an agreement establishing a Funds-in-Trust in favour of the restoration of the historical centre of Gjirokastra inscribed on the World Heritage List since 2005.Mrs Blegina Agalli, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sport of Albania, attended the ceremony. The Fund being set up with the initial contribution of  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/301</link>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Re-opening of the Anna Amalia Library (World Heritage site of Classical Weimar) planned in October 2007 after the fire of 2004</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Anna Amalia Library, part of the World Heritage site of Classical Weimar which was inscribed on the UNESCO List in 1998, will reopen in October 2007, three years after it was damaged by a fire. According to the architect in charge of the restoration works, Mr Walther Grundwald, the deadline should be respected. &amp;quot;We have chosen the date of 24 October for the re-opening, as it is the birthday of the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Anna-Amalia,&amp;quot; he said.On 2 September 2004, a  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/299</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Statement of the Director-General of UNESCO: Transmitting the past without alteration or omission</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&amp;quot;In the face of the attempts to re-write history that are currently at work, I can but recall in the most emphatic manner that it is our moral duty to analyse the past and to pass it on without falsification, alteration or omission. Any attempt to call into question or to deny the reality of the Holocaust or of any other crime against humanity is to be &#xa0;deeply regretted.&#xa0; UNESCO has a major role to play in this work of transmission, which is of especial importance to the younger  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/298</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Conclusions of the First HERITY International Conference</title>
         <description><![CDATA[This conference was held in Rome from December 5-9. The conclusions outlined below were reached thanks to&#xa0;contributions&#xa0;from ICCROM, UNESCO-WHC, UN-WTO, HERITY INTERNATIONALFrom the point of view of culture, no poor Countries exist around the World: every territory has a significant and priceless Heritage Wealth. This Heritage constitutes the collective memory of Humanity. As a non renewable resource, Cultural Heritage should be managed according to Quality principles, ensuring its  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/422</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>2006-2007 World Heritage Map Available </title>
         <description><![CDATA[The 2006-2007 World Heritage map, the second to be produced in collaboration with National Geographic and Hewlett Packard, is now available. The goal of the partnership, signed at the end of 2005 for an initial period of three years, is to raise awareness of the World Heritage Convention, and the map is an essential tool for this purpose. The partnership combines National Geographic&amp;#39;s unsurpassed cartography with HP&amp;#39;s high technology printing to illustrate the location of World  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/295</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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