1st Regional Meeting on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

From oceantreasures.org

Organized by UNESCO and with support from Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency.

The meeting will be the first regional meeting to be organized anywhere in the world to promote the convention and its scientific protection standards among UNESCO member states.

The meeting aims to promote the convention and its scientific protection standards among UNESCO member states. It also aspires to inform country representatives and cultural decision-makers and will provide a forum for the exchange of national experiences.

Initiated in 2001 with the signatures of nine countries, the “UNESCO Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention” now sets the basics for the protection of underwater cultural heritage in coastal and high seas with signatures from more than 40 countries.

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