Have almost fallen asleep this afternoon, so boring. Iran now states that it does its utmost to protect its heritage, despite Israel. Israel replies it has suffered from Iran, also its WHS (Tel Aviv, or 'near Tel Aviv' apparently?).

No new amendments have come in today for the scheduled WHC nominations of tomorrow. I was expecting more but maybe there's a backlog. What will Faya Palaeolandscape (not inscribe advice) do, for example, will the UAE withdraw despite having put so much effort and promotion into it? Or the also contested Murujuga Cultural Landscape? Both are scheduled for tomorrow morning in the agenda.

Oh, what did I just say. Here come the Amendments
- FRIM (led by Japan): Refer to Inscribe
- Murujuga (led by Kenya): Refer to Inscribe

and...
- Faya Palaeolandscape (Zambia only): Not inscribe to Inscribe

elsslots
I remember the similar case from Non to Ins was with Al-Ahsa Oasis. Any other such surprising inscriptions?

Faya Palaeolandscape is the only Arab representative this year. Although the draft decision is not to inscribe, generally, at least in recent years, each UNESCO region has at least one representative inscribed per session.

Yes there are more. All are in https://www.worldheritagesite.org/connections/controversial-at-inscription/

I just searched all "Advisory Bodies Overruled" and I got to 5 cases:
749 in 1996: W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
1433 in 2012: Bethlehem
1470 in 2018: Naumburg Cathedral (ICOMOS just gave up in the end, but they were against)
1549 in 2019: Sheki
1563 in 2018: Al Ahsa

Hello everyone!

I will try to add live updates during the coming 3 days, both here in this topic and on the WHC 2025 page. On that page you will also find the order of the discussions: hit the button Agenda for that above the nominated sites.

The first change of order ---- Pfff. (Sardis and Domus de Janas) -> changed

Azerbaijan contesting new Armenian TWHS (Urartian and Garni).... (first time I saw this happen?)
Peru contesting Chilean Pisco

Could be a nice first TWHS connection

They're having technical difficulties and have stopped the meeting... for some 20 minutes already.

Gdynia not withdrawn after all?

I missed a few minutes due to the technical issues, but it seems that none of the 32 nominated has been requested to be withdrawn?

Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape (Cameroon) first. Apparently best in Sub-Sah Africa except Great Zimbabwe ruins etc and Horn of Africa ones (probably Ethiopia). Has ritual significance still

Inscribed on crit iii

Next Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape (Malawi)