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         <title>UNESCO Mission reports on war damage to cultural heritage in Lebanon</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Experts* sent to Lebanon by UNESCO to assess the state of the country&amp;#39;s cultural heritage sites have called for urgent measures to clean up the oil spill from the World Heritage edifices along the Byblos shore line. However, they found that major components of Lebanon&amp;#39;s cultural heritage had been spared by the recent conflict. The experts&amp;#39; findings were presented at a press conference at UNESCO this morning by the Organization&amp;#39;s Assistant Director-General for Culture,  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/283</link>
         <author>i.le-fournis@unesco.org (Isabelle Le Fournis)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO sends experts to carry out technical assessment of the effects of the war on Lebanon&apos;s cultural heritage </title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Director-General of UNESCO, Ko&amp;iuml;chiro Matsuura, today announced that the Organization will send a mission of experts, from September 10 to 16, to assess the potential damage caused to cultural sites in the recent conflict in Lebanon.
The mission will, among other things, visit UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage sites of Tyre, Baalbek and Byblos. Tyre and Baalbek, first built by the Phoenicians grew over the centuries and retain, to this day, some of the finest examples of Imperial Roman  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/278</link>
         <author>i.le-fournis@unesco.org (Isabelle LeFournis)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO Director-General launches &quot;heritage alert” for the Middle East</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Director-General of UNESCO, Ko&#xef;chiro Matsuura, today launched an alert to protect heritage in the Middle East. The full text of the declaration follows: &amp;quot;The heritage site of Tyre is under threat.&amp;quot;UNESCO has already launched two urgent appeals to the belligerents to ensure that the hostilities spare the site and its surroundings, which are part of the ancestral heritage of humanity, and avert the total destruction feared by all.&amp;quot;I am compelled to renew this appeal and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/276</link>
         <author>i.le-fournis@unesco.org (Isabelle Le Fournis)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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