Busan Declaration calls for global collaboration to protect World Heritage

BUSAN — As wars, climate change and rapid development increasingly threaten some of the world's most treasured cultural and natural sites, delegates at UNESCO's World Heritage Committee on Monday adopted a declaration calling for a new era of international cooperation to safeguard them. The Busan Declaration on World Heritage, adopted by consensus on the opening day of the committee's 48th session, said that collaboration should become a guiding principle of the World Heritage Convention as coun

By The Korea Herald