The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add2,
- Recalling Decision 41 COM 7B.49, adopted at its 41st session (Krakow, 2017),
- Acknowledges the information provided by the State Party concerning the progress made with the development of the Master Plan and Management Plan;
- Notes that the report of the joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission will be examined at the 43rd session of the Committee in 2019;
- Also notes that the mission supported the revised plans for re-shaping the partly constructed existing museum building; and that the 2018 mission report will provide additional recommendations on the wider overall Museum Complex programme that involve a range of existing buildings;
- Welcomes the decision by the State Party to create a Fund for the Conservation and Development of the Solovetsky Archipelago;
- Requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2019, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and on the recommendations of the 2018 Reactive Monitoring mission, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 43rd session in 2019.