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The Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene do not enter, at least for the moment, into the prestigious list of UNESCO inscribed in the World Heritage Register. Among the 21 voters voted for 12 countries, up from 9. The result of the vote, ANSA learns, at the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC), the UNESCO Committee, ongoing in Manama, Bahrain (Persian Gulf).
The majority required for immediate registration in the UNESCO Register was 14 of the 21 member countries of the Committee. According to what has been learned, the candidacy of the 12 Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene will be expressed: Angola, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Guatemala, Kuwait, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Hungary, Zimbabwe. While the opposites would have been Australia, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Bahrain, Norway, St. Kitts and Nevis, Spain. Unfortunately for two voices it was not possible to have an immediate registration.
In this context of substantial division of the party of the voters at the 42nd session of the CPM, a simple postponement has arrived, it is the antechamber of the inscription. in the prestigious register of Unesco. This result was obtained, on a proposal from Tunisia and despite the opposition of Spain and Norway, after two hours of debate, as never seen here, and pressing the Italian interministerial commission led by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Guglielmo Picchi with Ambbadador Vincenza Lomonaco (Permanent Representative of Italy to UNESCO), who led the international negotiations for the recognition by UNESCO of the landscape and environmental qualities of the Prosecco DOCG area.
In the final decision, approved, the UNESCO Committee recognizes "the high potential of the candidate site, which has elements of uniqueness that need to be better defined, and invites Italy to submit the file the next year with the corrections required for registration ". 19659005]
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