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Why does The Convention sets out the duties of States Parties?
- So that they can identify potential sites and their role in protecting and preserving them

What happens when you sign The Convention?
- Each country pledges to conserve not only the World Heritage sites situated on its territory, but also to protect its national heritage.

What are State Parties encouraged to do?
- To integrate the protection of the cultural and natural heritage into regional planning programmes, set up staff and services at their sites, undertake scientific and technical conservation research and adopt measures which give this heritage a function in the day-to-day life of the community.

The Convention stipulates the obligation of States Parties to report what regularly to the World Heritage Committee?
- The state of conservation of their World Heritage properties.

Why are these reports fundamental?
- They enable it to assess the conditions of the sites, decide on specific programe needs and resolve recurrent problems.

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Why was the event that aroused particular international concern was the decision to build the Aswan High Dam in Egypt?
- Because it would have flooded the valley containing the Abu Simbel Temples, a treasure of ancient Egyptian civilization.

In what year and why did the UNESCO launched an international safeguarding campaign?
- In 1959, after an appeal from the governments of Egypt and Sudan

What happened to the Abu Simbel and Philae temples?
- They were dismantled, moved to dry ground and reassembled.

How much money was donated by some 50 countries, showing the importance of solidarity and nations' shared responsibility in conserving outstanding cultural sites?
- $80 million USD

Which other campaings followed this one?
- Venice and its Lagoon (Italy) and the Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro (Pakistan) , and restoring the Borobodur Temple Compounds (Indonesia)

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Which country gave the idea of combining the preservation of cultural and natural sites?
- United States of America

What is the name of the trust the White house called in 1965, that "would stimulate international cooperation to protect ‘the world's superb natural and scenic areas and historic sites for the present and the future of the entire world citizenry?
- World Heritage Trust

Where and when did the proposals of the 1968, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) where presented?
- The 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm

When and by who was the Convention concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted?
- General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972

What else did the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972 adopted?
- The Recommendation concerning the Protection, at National Level, of the Cultural and Natural Heritage.