The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee included eight new sites on the List of World Heritage in Danger, the organization said in a statement on Sunday.





ISTANBUL (Sputnik)�� The 40th session of�the UNESCO committee, which kicked off�in Istanbul on�Sunday and was due to�last through�July 20, but�adjourned its work three days before�schedule due to�the UN security protocol put in�place following�the events that occurred in�Turkey on�July 15, is reviewing the condition of�cultural sites protected by�the body as�well as�examining new proposals to�be added to�the World Heritage List.
"The World Heritage Committee, on�the last afternoon of�its 40th session which opened on�10 July, inscribed eight new sites on�the List: one transnational site (in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan), and others in�Canada, Chad, China, Iraq, Iran, Mexico and Sudan," the UNESCO statement reads.


The newly added natural sites are Hubei Shennongjia in�Chinese Hubei Province, Mistaken Point in�Canada's island of�Newfoundland, Archipi�lgo de Revillagigedo in�Mexico, Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay�� Mukkawar Island Marine National Park in�Sudan, Lut Desert in�south-east of�Iran and a Western Tien-Shan transnational site located in�the Tien-Shan mountain system between�Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.


The latterly added mixed, cultural and natural sites are Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape in�northeast of�Chad and the Ahwar of�Southern Iraq: Refuge of�Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of�the Mesopotamian Cities in�southern Iraq.

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