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The 35th Session of the World Heritage Committee was held in Paris, France from 19 to 29 of June, 2011. This is a return to the headquarters. The last time that a session was held in Paris was in 2003, during the 27th session of the committee.
Members of the World Heritage Committee expected to attend the 35th session include Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Iraq, Jordan, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Russian Federation, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and United Arab Emirates. The session will be chaired by Bahrain. Representatives from Barbados, Cambodia, Estonia, South Africa and Switzerland will function as vice-chairpersons while the representative from Mali will act as rapporteur.
Forty-two sites have been nominated for consideration to be inscribed as World Heritage Sites. The following are the nominees:
Cultural Properties
- Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy (Bahrain)
- Bridgetown and its Garrison (Barbados)
- West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China)
- Coffee Cultural Landscape (Colombia)
- Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
- The Causses and the Cévennes (France)
- The architectural work of Le Corbusier, an outstanding contribution to the Modern Movement (France, Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Switzerland)
- Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany)
- The Persian Garden (Iran)
- The Land of Caves and Hiding (Israel)
- The Triple-arch Gate at Dan (Israel)
- The Longobards in Italy, Places of Power, 568-774 A.D., (Italy)
- Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (Japan)
- Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya)
- Fundidora Monterre (Mexico)
- Transboundary Nomination for Yapese Stone Money Sites in Palau and Yap (Micronesia / Palau)
- Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia)
- León Cathedral (Nicaragua)
- Oke-Idanre Cultural Landscape (Nigeria)
- Historical City of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
- Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (Spain)
- Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (Sudan)
- Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
- Old City and Ramparts of Alanya with Seljuk Shipyard (Turkey)
- Selimiye Mosque and its social Complex (Turkey)
- Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatia Metropolitans (Ukraine)
- Cultural Sites of Al Ain: Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas (United Arab Emirates)
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Viet Nam)
- Ningaloo Coast (Australia)
- Pendjari National Park (Benin, an extension of W National Park of Niger)
- Wudalianchi National Park (China)
- Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Germany, an extension of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Slovakia and Ukraine)
- Western Ghats (India)
- Harra Protected Area (Iran)
- Ogasawara Islands (Japan)
- Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)
- Trinational Sangha (Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic)
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (Viet Nam)
- Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (Jamaica)
- Wadi Rum (Jordan)
- Saloum Delta (Senegal)
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