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CAIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL & CULTURAL NEWS OF IRANIAN WORLD© |
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New Industrial Town Endangers Ancient Bistun
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10 August 2006 |
LONDON, (CAIS) -- The "Kermanshah Industrial City Corporation" plans to establish an industrial town named Hersin, which will breach the territory determined by UNECSO for the Bistun ancient site.
However,
Kermanshah Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department director Asadollah Biravand
and Bistun Grand Project managing director Maliheh Mehdiabadi said that they
have not been informed about this, the Persian service of CHN reported on
Wednesday.
Bistun,
an ancient Iranian site bearing bas-reliefs and inscriptions of Darius the
Great, was registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on July 13 during the
30th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee held in Vilnius, Lithuania.
“Construction
of Hersin was approved by the Planning Council of the province (Kermanshah) last
year, and this industrial town will be established on 90 hectares beside the
village of Bazan-Abad, located three kilometers away from Bistun,” Kermanshah
Industrial City Corporation' finance manager Q-mars Razzaqi said.
Mehdiabadi
said, “So far, we have not received any application for construction of any
factory in this region. The national and world demarcations of the site are
absolutely clear. All companies and governmental organizations were informed
about the national demarcation in April 2005. Thus, I don’t think any
organization or company will engage in the construction of any building here.
“UNESCO
has determined 250 square kilometers of territory for Bistun, and Bazan-Abad
village is located in this area.”
Construction
projects had previously caused difficulties for the registration of Bistun on
UNESCO’s World Heritage List, but
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