As representatives of member
countries of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO) returned home after the the just concluded 37th Session General
Conference in France, Africa will, in the next four years, treat a wound of
missing a slot in the World Heritage Committee of the global body.
Africa’s representative countries
that vied and lost in the 12 seats committee included Angola, Burkina Faso,
Kenya, Mauritania, Tanzania and Zambia.
After 173 cast their votes in the 190
member states - 17 State Parties elected were neutral - Turkey polled the
highest with 121 votes, Angola got the lowest at 37 votes.
Other countries elected to the Committee are Croatia, Finland, Jamaica,
Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal and
Vietnam.
The World Heritage Committee is one
of the most influential and important organs of UNESCO; it has the powers to
consider matters of World Heritage.
Eligibility for State Party members include
a strength of 50 +1 percent of the votes in order to pull through. But Europe got
6 out of the 11 seats, Asia got 3 seats, the Middle East with 1,
Caribbean Islands 1 and South America 1.
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