UNESCO World Heritage Committee

Madrid's tree-lined Paseo del Prado boulevard and the adjoining Retiro park have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list.

The Turkish foreign ministry on July 24 rejected the U.N. cultural agency's remarks on the state of Hagia Sophia after it was converted to a mosque and said its statement is "biased and political."  

Azerbaijan and Bulgaria have signed a program document on cultural cooperation,  Trend  reports.

Azerbaijani Culture Minister Abulfas Garayev met with Bulgarian Culture Minister Boil Banov on July 4, who arrived in Azerbaijan to attend the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

Skiers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of one of Europe's last wildernesses, home to brown bears, grey wolves and the lesser spotted eagle, according to a conservation charity.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has inscribed the "Aphrodisias Archaeological Site" on the UNESCO World Heritage List upon Turkey's nomination, the Foreign Ministry said in a written statement on July 10.  

A draft resolution over the status of the Sur district in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, which is home to a UNESCO-protected world heritage site, has been passed without being opened for discussion from the agency's World Heritage Committee's 40th session being held in Istanbul. 

The historic city walls of Diyarbak?r, as well as two churches and a mosque, were damaged during clashes in the central district of Sur Conflicts in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r?s central district of Sur have damaged ancient city walls, which were recently inducted onto UNESCO?s World Heritage List, as well as some other structures.