The World Heritage Convention is intended to identify and help conserve natural and cultural sites of global significance. The World Heritage List is not intended to be simply an international compilation of national lists of significant sites, but rather a single global list of only those sites that possess "outstanding universal value."
The world heritage committee's operational guidelines state, "The Convention is not intended to ensure the protection of all properties of great interest, importance or value, but only for a select list of the most outstanding of these from an international viewpoint. It is not to beassumed that a property of national and/or regional importance will automatically be inscribed on the world heritage list." In practice, the international criteria for both nature and culture are subject to differences of interpretation and the application of principles of selection in strikingly different ways,but still they are, in their basic intent, highly selective, almost exclusionary.
The purpose of the world heritage convention ("Convention Concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage"), the 1972 treaty which established the world heritage list, is to enhance worldwide understanding and cultural properties around the world that have been formally determined to possess outstanding universal value to humanity. The United States, under President Nixon, was a primary architect to the World Heritage Convention and became the first signatory when the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty 95-0 on October 26, 1973. The United States has continuously maintained a leadership role in the work of the convention, including serving multiple terms on the world heritage committee, the governing body of 21 countries elected from among the nations that have signed the convention. In terms of nations, the world heritage convention, with 185 signatories, is the most nearly universal treaty for cultural preservation and nature conservation in human history.
The world heritage committee's operational guidelines state, "The Convention is not intended to ensure the protection of all properties of great interest, importance or value, but only for a select list of the most outstanding of these from an international viewpoint. It is not to beassumed that a property of national and/or regional importance will automatically be inscribed on the world heritage list." In practice, the international criteria for both nature and culture are subject to differences of interpretation and the application of principles of selection in strikingly different ways,but still they are, in their basic intent, highly selective, almost exclusionary.
The purpose of the world heritage convention ("Convention Concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage"), the 1972 treaty which established the world heritage list, is to enhance worldwide understanding and cultural properties around the world that have been formally determined to possess outstanding universal value to humanity. The United States, under President Nixon, was a primary architect to the World Heritage Convention and became the first signatory when the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty 95-0 on October 26, 1973. The United States has continuously maintained a leadership role in the work of the convention, including serving multiple terms on the world heritage committee, the governing body of 21 countries elected from among the nations that have signed the convention. In terms of nations, the world heritage convention, with 185 signatories, is the most nearly universal treaty for cultural preservation and nature conservation in human history.
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