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28COM 15B.57

Decision Text

The World Heritage Committee,
1. Recalling the concern at the time of inscription regarding the tourism and
pilgrimage pressures facing the property,
2. Congratulates the State Party for initiating efforts to elaborate a comprehensive
document relevant to the long-term conservation and management of the
property;
3. Requests the State Party to pursue its efforts towards the finalisation of the
current management plan for peer review by the Indian conservation
professionals and taking into account the suggestions made by the Advisory
Bodies in the joint ICCROM-ICOMOS paper, in particular focussing on:
a) integrating a heritage values-sensitive approach to management,
b) basing the document on protection of the inscribed Mahabodhi World
heritage property,
c) developing a realistic implementation strategy,
d) including a peer review process within development of the plan;
4. Encourages the State Party to identify legal mechanisms to designate the
Mahabodhi Temple Complex as a protected monument, to ensure maintenance
of the buffer zone proposed by the State Part for Mahabodhi at the time of
inscription, and to consider the possible extension of the core zone to include
the Bodhgaya property;
5. Invites the State Party to organise a series of stakeholders’ interventions in the
process of improving and finalising the management plan, and to submit a
request for Technical Co-operation Assistance for this purpose;
6. Requests the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies to organise a
first joint mission in order to assess the steps taken by the State Party to
protect the World Heritage values of the property, and to submit its report for
examination by the 29th session of the Committee in 2005.

Documents

• Original Decision Document