This may also include natural areas and cultural heritage sites.

The Department apos s functions include exploration, excavation of ancient sites, conservation of sites and cultural objects, exhibiting, research and publication.

The islands have various natural tourist attractions and several cultural and historical sites.

Seven sites of major historical significance are managed by the Central Cultural Fund of the Ministry.

However, the present claim is for damage to cultural heritage property and sites in all areas of Iran.

The Serbian Orthodox Church maintains its disengagement on the reconstruction of religious sites damaged or destroyed during the violence of March 2004, and on the inventory of its cultural heritage sites.

Within this context, I wish to emphasize that preservation of cultural and historical sites through reuse is carried out in accordance with international instruments governing the preservation of cultural heritage.

In the first place, Iraq challenges Iran's claim that smoke from the oil well fires reached cultural heritage sites in Iran.

The State party provides information about recent legal measures taken to protect cultural sites and provides examples of their successful application.

UNESCO, in close collaboration with national authorities concerned and international institutions such as ITC, will continue to monitor selected cultural sites inscribed in the World Heritage List, using remote sensing methods and GIS. The historic sites of Angkor in Cambodia and Moenjodaro in Pakistan are among those sites.

Iran bases its calculation of the amount sought on the costs of conservation work on 10 cultural monuments and sites in Iran.

As a result of this programme, a list of Palestinian cultural and natural heritage sites has been prepared for the first time.

Iraq adds that damage to cultural heritage is site specific and requires individual site assessment whereas Syria has extrapolated damage from reference sites.

Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to protect the cultural and religious sites of national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Improve the management of cultural and natural heritage sites and ensure the accessibility of such heritage to all and its cost effective maintenance.

(c) Enjoy access to places for cultural performances or services, such as theatres, museums, cinemas, libraries and tourism services, and, as far as possible, enjoy access to monuments and sites of national cultural importance.

Finally, the Panel notes that other factors, such as local sources of pollution from motor vehicle emissions, regional oil refining, and human occupation of historic sites could have contributed to the deterioration of the cultural heritage artefacts and sites.

Such creations, manifestations and productions include the practices, representations, expressions as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts, sites and cultural spaces associated therewith that indigenous peoples and individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage.

7. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to protect the cultural and religious sites of national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

8. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to protect the cultural and religious sites of national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

8. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to protect the cultural and religious sites of national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Also calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to protect the cultural and religious sites of national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Also calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to protect the cultural and religious sites of national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Syria states that, as a result of exposure to the aforementioned airborne contaminants, sites of cultural and archaeological significance were damaged across the country.

It is one of four sites in Syria listed under the 1972 UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

Regarding the identification, inventorying, cataloguing and recording of the cultural heritage, in 1998 INAH catalogued 68,079 registered archaeological sites and immovable historic monuments, while in 2003 the figure was 112,662, of which 34,110 are archaeological sites and 78,562 are historic monuments.

The studies were on (a) the air pollution effects on Iranian sites (b) the air pollution effects on Iranian museums (c) surface deposit identification on cultural heritage materials and sites in Iran and (d) the assessment of damage to Iranian cultural heritage caused by the increase in air pollution resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

The authorities in Afghanistan have indicated their intention to protect the cultural heritage by enacting regulations and expressed their willingness to undertake the restoration of destroyed and damaged cultural sites, in addition to inducing those in possession of cultural artifacts to return them to the governmental authorities.

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The Panel also finds that Iran has not presented sufficient evidence identifying the specific locations, materials, and the extent of contamination of the cultural heritage sites that it claims were damaged in 1991 and subsequently cleaned, or any other sites that currently remain contaminated.

(b) National security sites. These were sites of significance in terms of the security of the State. They included sites of the Republican Guard and the Special Republican Guard, sites of the military and civilian intelligence agencies and security apparatus sites

One INAH action to avert the effects of a natural disaster on historic monuments and archaeological sites was to start implementation of the Cultural Heritage Disaster Prevention Programme.

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With regard to damage from surface blackening of cultural heritage monuments, the Panel finds that Iran does not clearly describe or identify the nature and extent of the damage to the cultural heritage artefacts and sites that are the subject of the claim.

The Serbian Orthodox Church maintained its withdrawal from the memorandum of understanding on the reconstruction programme for cultural and religious sites damaged during the March 2004 violence (a priority).

Most of the sites are simple, primitive sites with few if any environmental safeguards.

As a result, smoke plumes from the burning oil wells in Kuwait were transported to the Iranian basin and affected cultural and natural heritage artefacts and sites in the basin.

It also requires respect for and protection of their religious and cultural heritage, essential to their group identity, including buildings and sites such as libraries, churches, mosques, temples and synagogues.

The material basis was seriously affected by the restitution, as a result of which there was an unrecoverable loss of 203 cultural sites with a total surface of 211,000 m2.

The majority of the reports indicated social cultural benefits, including active involvement of local communities, increased public awareness, maintenance of natural heritage and historical sites, as well as cleaner air.