A highlight was the approval of 24 properties for inclusion in the World Heritage List, among them India’s Moidams (the ancient burial mounds of the Ahom dynasty in Assam), Iran’s Hegmataneh and the Cultural Landscape of the Al-Faw Archeological Area, Saudi Arabia.

The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil, the Cultural Landscape of Lake Kenozero in Russia, the sites in South Africa of Nelson Madela’s legacy Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation, and the Central Axis of Beijing: a set of buildings that shows the ideal order of the capital of China, among other cultural or natural wonders, were also inscribed.

Regarding Cuba’s participation, Nilson Acosta, vice president of the National Heritage Council, delegate to the heritage event in Delhi, highlighted the island’s experience with the work of the World Heritage Committee and recalled that the Caribbean island served four times as a member of that group.

He added that the Cuban Caribbean reef system is in the final phase of the first stage of the nomination process as a world heritage site, so it is valid to establish contact with the advisory bodies to know the status of the procedure and to clarify any doubts that may exist in this regard.

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