Accoring to a report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Heritage Committee has removed the Kathmandu Valley from its World Heritage list of sites in danger, recognizing improvements in conservation and management.
The cultural heritage of Kathmandu Valley, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1979 and on the Danger List in 2003, features seven groups of monuments and buildings which display the full range of historic and artistic achievements for which the Kathmandu Valley is world famous.
The seven groups include the Durbar Squares of Hanuman Dhoka, Patan and Bhaktapur, the Buddhist stupas of Swayambhu and Bauddhanath, and the Hindu temples of Pashupati and Changu Narayana.
The committee praised Nepal's work in protecting the "outstanding universal value" of the site in the face of urban development.
Along with Kathmandu valley's World Heritage sites, the UNESCO also removed Palaces of Abomey, Benin in west Africa, from the list of sites in danger.
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee was set up to encourage countries to sign the World Heritage Convention and to ensure the protection of their natural and cultural heritage and to encourage governments to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List, among others.
The committee's decisions, released late Monday, followed a reprieve granted earlier in the day to Germany's park-like Elbe Valley, near Dresden.
On June 26 and 27 the committee will decide which of 40 nominated sites will attain World Heritage list status.
The committee meetings, which run until July 2 and are closed to the public, will consider new site nominations, sites in danger, site management and protection.
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