According to press reports, the Taleban's top front-line commander Mullah Abdul Wahed threatened Wednesday to destroy the historic Buddhist treasures of Bamyan Province, currently under the control of minority Shiite Muslims. International humanitarian law established detailed rules that were already fundamental traditions of Islam, notably protecting the defenseless in time of conflict. I urge all sides concerned to help insure that Afghan cultural heritage is preserved and that no act of vandalism is committed against these statues. The monuments of the Bamyan Valley, Bamyan Province were nominated to the World Heritage List in 1982, although they were deferred at the time due to insufficient information. They remain on Afghanistan's Tentative List as properties the State Party wishes to renominate.
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In the statement, signed by the Foreign Minister Ljubomir Frckoski and dated 18 October 1996, Macedonia declared that it wished to succeed to sixteen conventions and other agreements to which the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a party. The Declaration by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is retroactive, taking effect from 17 November 1991. The workshop, held from 14 to 16 May, was organized by the National Museums of Kenya, an institution whose activities reach far beyond the traditional tasks of museums and archaeology departments. The workshop, which was attended by nearly 100 experts in the field of historic preservation, attracted participants from sub-Saharan Africa as well as from Israel, Sri Lanka, and the United States. These discussed during the workshop included cultural heritage and urban conservation policies, the institutional and legislative aspects of heritage conservation, cultural tourism development, community participation in conservation projects and sustainable urban management and urban conservation.