The Unesco World Heritage Committee does not know a summer truce.
After the announcement of the inscription of the Cordouan lighthouse on its world heritage list on Saturday, it inscribed seven new sites on Monday.
Four of them were chosen “
because of their natural attributes
”: Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island (Japan), Getbol, Korean coastal areas (Republic of of Korea), the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (Thailand) and the Colchis Rainforests and Wetlands (Georgia).
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Three others were added to the list for their cultural value: the archaeological site of the Arslantepe tell (Turkey), the extension of the Amsterdam Defense Line, now called the “Dutch Defense Water Lines” (Pays -Bas) and a transnational site, the charitable colonies (Belgium-Netherlands).
On Sunday, four new cultural sites were listed as World Heritage by Unesco, in China, India, Iran and Spain.
The current 44th session of the World Heritage Committee is being held online from Fuzhou (China) and the inscription of sites is expected to continue until July 28.
The tell of Arslantepe is an archaeological site 30 meters high located in the plain of Malatya, 12 km southwest of the Euphrates.
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