The 37th session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee has removed Iranâ„¢s ancient Bam Citadel from its List of World Heritage in Danger.
The committee has recognized that remains of the historical citadel of Bam had been sufficiently stabilized and can be declared safe, AFP reported.
Å“The committee’s decision to remove it from the endangered list reflected a positive development in (Bam’s) safeguarding,” UNESCO spokesman Roni Amelan said.
“It is very good news indeed when problems that (are) threatening the outstanding universal value of a site are overcome,” he added.
Bam historical complex was registered on UNESCOâ„¢s World Heritage List in 2004 and at the same time it was added to UNESCOâ„¢s List of World Heritage in Danger due to the devastating earthquake in 2003.
The quake killed about 26,000 people and almost completely destroyed the worldâ„¢s largest adobe building, Bam Citadel.
Teams of Italian and German experts have carried out reconstruction projects on the enormous mud-built citadel over the past decade.
Iranâ„¢s two other sites including Imam Square and Friday Mosque in Isfahan are also in UNESCOâ„¢s list to be examined for their current situation.
This yearâ„¢s summit has been programmed to review the conflict situations of 102 registered spots in the world.
The committee is also slated to assess the files of Iranâ„¢s Golestan Palace and Meymand Cave Village along with 32 other submitted sites from around the world for a possible inscription on the World Heritage list.
Armenian monastic ensembles of Iran, Bam and its cultural landscape, Bisotoun, Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Pasargadae, Persepolis, Sheikh Safi al-din shrine, Shoushtar historical hydraulic system, Soltaniyeh, Tabriz historic bazaar complex, Takht-e Soleiman, Tchogha Zanbil and the Persian garden are among the Iranian historical heritage inscribed on UNESCOâ„¢s World Heritage List.
World Heritage site is a title that is given to the locations, which have “outstanding universal value” to all of humanity, according to the UNESCO description.
The 37th session of the World Heritage Committee kicked off in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on June 16 and will run until June 27, 2013.
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This article originally appeared on: Press TV