By the decision of the Fifth Meeting of the
Coordinating Committee held in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on December 4-5, 2018
the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) was elected the
Secretariat of the Serial Transnational Nomination of the Silk Road "Silk
Road: Zaravshan-Karakum Corridor", which brings together the cultural
heritage sites of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Republic of Tajikistan and
Turkmenistan.
IICAS, as the Secretariat of the Nomination, is
pleased to announce that the draft version of the
Nomination Dossier was successfully prepared thanks to the support of the
National Commissions of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of
Tajikistan for UNESCO, the authorized bodies of Turkmenistan, the governorates
of the Navoi and Bukhara regions of the Republic of Uzbekistan, University
College London (UCL), a group of international and national experts, the
project the nomination was successfully prepared.
In accordance with the Article 127 of the
Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1972 Convention Concerning
the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the draft version of
the Dossier was sent on September 30, 2020 for review and preliminary
assessment by the UNESCO World Heritage Center (WHC). IICAS, as the Secretariat
of this Nomination, continues working on the Nomination Dossier to have its
final version submitted by February 2021.
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