attend celebrations of the 1,000th birthday of the capital city and hand
over certification of UNESCO recognition of Thang Long Royal
Citadel as a world cultural heritage.
Head of the UNESCO Office in Hanoi Katherine Muller Marin announced the
visit at a song and dance festival in Hanoi on Sept. 18.
The
35 th session of the UNESCO General Assembly in 2009 passed a
resolution on UNESCO’s participation in the grand ceremony of the 1,000
th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Almost one year later,
the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee recognised Vietnam ’s Thang
Long Royal Citadel as a world cultural heritage at its 34th session in
Brazil on July 31.
The site won the recognition thanks to
its three outstanding characteristics: the length of its cultural
history, the continuity of the citadel as a power centre, and the
variety of relics it contains
The citadel will open to visitors in time for Hanoi ’s 1,000th anniversary.
The
cleanup at relic site of the Thang Long citadel is also expected to
finish by September 20. On Sept. 16, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister
Nguyen Sinh Hung paid a visit to the site to check the arrangement of
artifacts found at the 18 Hoang Dieu street, the archaeological
excavation area for the planned exhibition./.
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