World Heritage Centre Circular Letter No.4

                                                       WHC/31/1/MR
                                                  10 February 1993

To :      States Parties to the World Heritage Convention
          UNESCO Regional and Country Offices
          IUCN, ICOMOS and ICCROM
          Permanent Delegations of Member States in UNESCO

From :    Director, UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Subject:  Tentative lists on cultural landscapes by States Parties
          to the World Heritage Convention

     I am pleased to inform you that the sixteenth session of the
World Heritage Committee in Santa Fe decided to revise the cultural
criteria of the Operational Guidelines of the World Heritage
Convention in order to include outstanding exceptional cultural
landscapes on the World Heritage List. Please find attached (Annex
I) the revised criteria for inclusion of cultural properties on the
World Heritage List.

     Following the decision of the World Heritage Committee, I
would like to ask all State Parties whether they intend to nominate
outstanding cultural landscapes for the World Heritage List within
the next five to ten years. If this is the case, please update
your tentative list by adding cultural landscapes and send it to
the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. These tentative lists should be
established in accordance with the operational guidelines,
paragraph I B, which you will find enclosed as Annex II. Please
also confirm if you do not want to nominate any cultural landscape
for the World Heritage List.

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     Please send your reply before August 15, 1993 to the

     UNESCO World Heritage Centre
     7, place de Fontenoy
     75700 Paris, France
     Phone: (1) 45.68.18.91
     Fax: (1) 40.65.98.97

     Many thanks for your cooperation in the implementation of the
World Heritage Convention.

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