The FINANCIAL — The 40th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee was held on 13 July 2016, in Istanbul.
The World Heritage Committee has decided to remove Georgia’s Historical Monuments of Mtskheta site from the list of the World Heritage in Danger, according to MFA of Georgia.
The complex of medieval religious sites was put on the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger in 2009 following “deterioration of its stone fabric and fresco paintings caused by work carried out to its edifices”, UNESCO said.
As a result of intensive work carried out by the Georgian side during the last few years, at the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee in Istanbul, 21 Committee members unanimously supported removing the Historical Monuments of Mtskheta from UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger and inscribing it on the main World Heritage List.
