ALL THREE BALTIC STATES TO PRESENT LITHUANIA AS JOINT CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE
Created 2003-02-25
Lithuania's candidacy for the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will be presented as a joint nomination by the three Baltic States.
This is the first time that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have presented a joint candidate for elections at an international organisation.
The World Heritage Committee is the main institution overseeing the
implementation of the World Heritage Convention. It is elected biannually by the General Assembly of representatives of the participant states convening at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
The UNESCO World Heritage List includes two Lithuanian properties - the Old Town of Vilnius (inscribed in 1994) and the Curonian Spit (in 2000). In 2001 UNESCO also inscribed the Lithuanian craft of cross-making and ornamentation of crosses onto the List of the Non-Material World Heritage.
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