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Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
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Kyoto, Japan 27-28 November 1998
Chairperson: Prof Francesco Francioni (Italy) Rapporteur: Mr Noël Fattal (Lebanon) Vice-Chairpersons: Benin, Ecuador, Japan, Morocco, United States of America