BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 8. An international event
on “Improvement of qualifications of world heritage specialists” is
being held in Baku, Trend reports.
The event, for the first time, at the invitation of the UNESCO
advisory body – International Council on Monuments and Sites
(ICOMOS), has brought together experts and specialists in the field
of cultural heritage from 17 countries of the world.
Representatives of Türkiye, Poland, Israel, France, Bulgaria,
Slovenia, Russia, Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Egypt, Oman and other countries are participating in
the event.
Azerbaijan has a number of properties inscribed on he World
Heritage List of UNESCO. Among them are Gobustan Rock Art Cultural
Landscape, Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan’s Palace, Walled
City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace and Maiden Tower,
etc.
In April 2023, Azerbaijan said it submitted its proposal (on the
country’s Hirkan Forests) for the UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s
transnational nomination at the end of 2022.
Meanwhile, it should also be noted that as a result of the
Karabakh war and Armenia’s occupation of Azerbaijani lands, a lot
of Azerbaijan’s cultural heritage suffered enormous damage.
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