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The Syrian Arab Republic and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a Special relationship in the field of The Convention of Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection in1972
- Dr.Nidal Hasan (Secretary General of the Syrian National Commission for Education, Science and Culture), and Al Mothana Khadour (Director of Curriculum and Guidance in the Ministry of Education)
UNESCO is a leading organization in the area of protecting the cultural and natural heritage around the world. It highly considers the particular importance of humanity. Here we recall the constitution of UNESCO, which declares that: "UNESCO maintains the survival, development and dissemination of knowledge by preserving and protecting World Heritage".

- The organization recommends all concerned states to adopt the international conventions for this purpose. And due to the fact that all conventions, recommendations, and international resolutions related to natural and cultural property, show their significance for people all over the world. That's why it is important to protect and save them as a irreplaceable unique properties, regardless their ownership by any country or people.

- The international community is facing a breadth and intensification new risks. All Member States have to adopt a collective approach to protect the cultural and natural heritage for its outstanding universal value. For this purpose, UNESCO has to issue new provisions in the form of a convention to establish permanent and effective protection systems based on the modern scientific methods, after the decision made by the World Heritage Committee, in its sixteenth session, to regulate this issue under an international convention; the decision has been transformed into an international convention called "Convention of the World Natural and Cultural Heritage Protection, and has been adopted by UNESCO in 1972.

- The convention has identified the conditions that must be met by the natural and cultural sites in order to be inscribed on the World Heritage List, and set up the rights and obligations of State Members in this regard in addition to their responsibilities to follow up the implementation of the Convention as vested in the World Heritage Committee, which will meets once a year and is consisted of 21st countries who adopted this convention.

- The article 29th confirms the need that States Parties prepare periodic reports to be submitted to the General Conference of the United Nations of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), according to standardized formulas that include information about the legislative and regulatory provisions related to protection of the cultural heritage, and other measures taken to implement the Convention, and the reports have to refer to the detailed experience in this regard
These reports are effective tools that stress the importance of preserving the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List on the long term, in addition to enhancing the credibility of the convention implementation.

- UNESCO, during the long years of this mutual relationship, has sent experts to support Syria to examine a group of the Syrian archaeological sites that are inscribed on the World Heritage List, such as:
• Damascus old city / 1979 /
• Busra Al- Sham / 1980 /
• Archaeological Palmyra site / 1980 /
• Aleppo old city / 1986 /
• Al-Haesen Citadel in Homs / 2006 /
• Citadel of Saladin in Lattakia / 2006 /
• The ancient villages northern Syria (the dead cities) / 2011 /

- The contracted country chooses an efficient officer from its cadres and assigns him as a focal point to follow up the preparation of the reports and the coordination between the directors of the archaeological sites, and to update data and filling up all questionnaires related to the archaeological sites and report on the technical situation and risks. The focal point is responsible to follow up the implementation of the protection methods and updated legislation and laws, in addition to maintain the proper coordination between the institution he represents and UNESCO.

- In this regard, the Ministry of Education in the Syrian Arab Republic has developed its educational curricula and textbooks based on educational national standards. The overall objective of these standards focused on preparation of the Syrian Arabic citizens and equippe them with specific characteristics and skills such as: citizenship, loyalty to their homeland, self- learning skills, morals and values. The standards try to enhance the student's self-development skills, productivity, scientific thinking, decision-making and problem resolving, and promote for practicing democracy in their life; while the sub-objectives of the curriculum were on the following issue:
• Develop learner's ability to communicate with other cultures and benefit from them.
• Enable learners to appreciate the positive role of cultural and civilization diversity in the development of human society.
• Acquaint learner with values and supportive behaviors patterns to respect public and private properties and preserve the infrastructure and national wealth, as well as rationalizing the consumption of resources in all forms, and protect the local and global environment.
 
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