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Concurrent with the 30th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, which has started its work since yesterday in Lithuania, the first phase of reducing the height of Jahan Nama tower in Isfahan was completed. | |||||||||
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Tehran, 9 July 2006 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- Concurrent with the 30th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, which has started its work since yesterday, 8th of July, in Lithuania and will run to 16th of July, the first phase of reducing the height of Jahan Nama tower has been completed. According to Reza Dolatyar, director of Jahan Nama Project for lowering its height, during the first phase, the height of Jahan Nama has been reduced one meter more than what was expected. In addition to deciding on 38 nominated sites which have been presented to UNESCO by different countries to be inscribed in its World Heritage List, the Committee will also revise 34 sites which are currently in the list of Endangered World Heritage Sites. These are sites that face serious threats for different reasons such as pollution, pillaging, war, poorly managed tourism, poaching, etc. Naqshe-Jahan Square is one of the endangered historical sites in Iran, which its condition will be carefully studied by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in its 30th session. “It was expected that by removing two ceilings from the tower and during the first phase of lowering the height of Jahan Nama, the height of the tower be reduced up to 7 meters. However, removing the second ceiling required that we also destroy another part of the remaining sections; thus with the approval of our advisor we decided to remove another one meter. The achieved progress is quite visible from the street for the people passing nearby. This process has just finished and the workers are collecting the debris,” said Dolatyar. Two months ago, UNESCO’s Director of World Heritage Center, Francesco Bandarin, made a visit to Iran to examine and discuss a number of issues regarding some cultural heritage sites in the country that are in danger due to development project. During his stay, he particularly visited the Jahan Nama Tower in Isfahan to see the process of lowering its height. Bandarin expressed his satisfaction about the cooperation of Iran in this respect after he observed the positive measures taken by the Iranian officials to lower the height of the building. In his visit, Bandarin suggested that the only way Iran has if it wants to stop the world heritage site of Naqsh-e Jahan Square from going the list of UNESCO’s Endangered World Heritage Sites is to reduce the height of Jahan Nama tower. Naqsh-e Jahan is a historical city square in Isfahan which was registered as a World Heritage Site in 1979 at UNESCO’s conference in Egypt. However, recent construction of Jahan Nama, a 48-meter high tower in its vicinity, which has intruded its cultural landscape, has resulted in some debates and struggles on putting Naqsh-e Jahan is the UNESCO list of “endangered Heritage”. UNIESCO’s conference in Lithuania which is currently holding aims at discussing the conditions of a number endangered heritage sites, among which Naqsh-e Jahan and the Bam Citadel from Iran will be given a special focus. Unlike Naqsh-e Jahan which has luckily not yet been inscribed in the Endangered Heritage List, Bam Citadel was inscribed in the List in 2004. Francesco Bandarin and some other UNESCO experts believe that the 2000-year-old Bam Citadel still does not have a proper condition to be excluded from the list of Endangered World Heritage Sites. This is while Eskandar Mokhtari, head of Bam Citadel Salvation Project, believes such decision which suggests Bam Citadel must still be in the said list is in fact in favor of the Citadel because it will receive more financial and expert support from UNESCO until it reaches to a more stable condition. “In his visit to Iran, Bandarin announced that Bam Citadel should still remain in the list of endangered World Heritage Sites,” said Mokhtari to CHN. Bam Citadel in Kerman province is the biggest earthen construction in the world which was reduced to rubble due to a sever earthquake that struck the region in 2003. More than 80 percent of this 2000-year-old monument was completely destroyed by the earthquake. The registration of Bam Citadel on the World Heritage List at the 28th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in China which happened shortly after the earthquake was a giant step toward renovation of this historical site. “UNESCO to Decide on Nominees for World Heritage List” foreigndesk@chn.ir |
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