The livestream will be added here shortly.

As usual, put your comments on the live action in this topic.
The discussion about the new WHS is expected to start on Friday July 11.

The livestream address:
https://youtu.be/wdRYV9EUPiU

Fixed background at work B-)

"Live Broadcast currently suspended" ..... and for several hours.

How long does it take to count 21 Votes??? Or did I miss the result of the Japan v Korea secret ballot???? if so what was it please??

3B adopted without amendment ... so it looks as if Japan withdrew or lost???

So complicated..... It appears that Korea did NOT get what it wanted (which was for Japan to be shown up as not having carried out what it promised -but, with all the hassle of votes and publicity etc perhaps it did actually achieve a minor discomfiture of Janan??? As much as it was ever likely to achieve and something to "bank" for raising next year???)......and is somewhat unappy generally with its lack of support at UNESCO on this matter of Japan's "failure" to publicly achnowledge its past treatment of Korea(ns)
"At the 47th meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Paris, France on the morning of the 7th (local time), it was discussed whether to formally adopt the agenda of "Evaluation of the Implementation of the Committee's Decisions" related to the Meiji Industrial Heritage, which was previously put on the "provisional agenda."
The representative of the Korean side explained the reason for the proposal to the effect that Japan's lackluster measures should be reviewed at this year's committee meeting.
However, Japan objected to the proposal, saying that it should be discussed at the bilateral level rather than the committee, and submitted an "amendment" that removed the proposal, which South Korea said was unacceptable and asked for a vote.
The vote was conducted by secret ballot of the 21 member states, and Japan's amendment was approved by a vote of 7 in favor and 3 against."

https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1008167934

Amendment to inscribe Peruaçu River Canyon, Brazil (submitted by Lebanon)

Note: this and the one mentioned above about Khuttal are proposed amendments, not decisions yet of course.

You can see them coming in at 'Amendments' at https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/47COM/documents/

They seem to have a different you tube address every day?
Today's session at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnfaX18_xyE

I take it from here (look for "Livestream" below the title):

https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/47COM

You can choose the floor, or French, English and today also Russian

Another amendment proposed, supported by Argentina, Greece, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Senegal
Maratha Military Landscapes of India from Deferral to Inscribe

And another amendment proposed, Yen Tu (Vietnam) from Deferral to Inscribe (led by India)

Another amendments proposed:

Domus de janas (Italy), to Inscribe (under the wrong link about Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front))
Minoan Palatial Centres (Greece), to Inscribe

Did "we" miss this, guys?

https://iucn.org/press-release/202507/rainforests-atsinanana-madagascar-removed-list-world-heritage-danger

Are they making decisions already? Let's stay on top of it tomorrow.

Thanks to quick action by Nan, we now also have the order of discussion of the nominated sites at the WHC embedded. Go to Nominated, and hit the button Agenda:

https://www.worldheritagesite.org/whc-sessions/2025/

Yes, today they celebrated a lots of removals from the "in danger" list: I got Ghadamès, Abou Mena, others... but missed Atsinanna.

I was distracted and on top of that a little confused. Anyway, if I understood well the ICOMOS representative noticed that this year there is a record of requests for disendangerments, surpassing the actual candidatures for nominations! And I think he was rather pissed off by that.

Again if I was attentive enough, the harshest discussions were between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. I missed the exact point about St. Sophia in Kyiv, which stays on the "in danger" list, but then Ukraine had some remarks to make on the risks of turistic exploitations of some Russian sites (especially Altai).

Another "topical" moment was the awkward situation when discussing Maloti-Drakensberg, when South Africa passed the word to Zambia (I don't know why not Lesotho), who passed it back to South Africa, then they asked the secretary to explain the situation, but he replied that this is up to the state parties, and finally, apaprently reluctantly, Zambia said something.


I totally lost this, was it in the morning?