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21 news sites added to UN World Heritage List
13.07.2017 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Twenty-one new sites have been inscribed on the UN World Heritage List, bringing the total number of sites to a little over a thousand, UN Radio says referring to the
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO at the closing of the 41st annual World Heritage Committee session in Krakow, Poland.
It is to be admitted, the Committee meets once a year to decide which cultural and natural sites of «outstanding universal value» go on the World Heritage List as well as those in need of protection.
Angola and Eritrea saw their first sites join the List this year.
Meanwhile, the Committee added the Historic Centre of Vienna to the List of World Heritage in Danger last week and removed three other sites.
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