Project UNESCO / Japanese Funds-in-Trust Project "Supporting the Silk Roads in Central

Asia" Sub-Regional Workshop

Development of Conservation and Management Strategies for Silk Roads Heritage Corridors
Almaty, Kazakhstan

Draft Agenda
Venue: Hotel "KAZAKHSTAN", conference hall "ALTYN YEMEL"

Day 1
26 June 2019
Objectives:
1. Discussing the management of World Heritage Properties along the Silk Road.
2. Develop conservation and management strategies for the overall Silk Roads heritage
corridors

Participating countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30 - 09:45 Opening

Welcome speech:
 Mr. Roland Lin, project Officer, Asia and the Pacific Unit, World Heritage
Centre
 Ms Aktoty Raimkulova, Vice Minister of Culture and Sports of the
Republic of Kazakhstan
 Ambassador, Embassy of Japan to Kazakhstan or his/her representative
– to be confirmed

09:45 – 10:30 Session 1: Heritage Corridors of the Silk Road: Chan-an-Tian Shan;
Penjikent-Samarkand-Poykent and Fergana-Syrdarya Corridors

Moderator: Ms Aktoty Raimkulova, Vice Minister of Culture and Sports,

Kazakhstan
  Objectives and expected results of the UNESCO/ JFIT project for
supporting Central Asian Silk Roads sites, Mr. Roland Lin, project Officer,
Asia and the Pacific Unit, World Heritage Centre
 Debriefing of the results of the 5th Silk Roads Coordinating Committee,
Mrs Bakyt Amanbayeva, co-chair of the Coordinating Committee on the
Serial Transnational World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads,
Director, Centre for Cultural Heritage, Institute of History and Cultural
Heritage, National Academy of Sciences (the Kyrgyz Republic)

Discussions

10:30 – 11:15 GROUP PHOTO AND COFFEE-BREAK

11:15 – 12:30 Session 2: Implementing the recommendations of the World Heritage

Committee on the World Cultural Heritage property "The Silk Road:
Chang'an - Tien Shan Corridor"

Moderator: Mr. Kazuya Yamauchi, Professor, Research Institute of Cultural

Properties, Teikyo University, Japan

 Monitoring of the state of conservation of the first inscribed Serial

Transnational World Heritage property “Silk Roads: the Routes Network
of Chang’an – Tianshan Corridor”, by IICC-Xi’an, 20 min
 Monitoring of the state of conservation of the first inscribed Serial
Transnational World Heritage property “Silk Roads: the Routes Network
of Chang’an – Tianshan Corridor”, by Kazakhstan, 20 min
 Monitoring of the state of conservation of the first inscribed Serial
Transnational World Heritage property “Silk Roads: the Routes Network
of Chang’an – Tianshan Corridor”, by Kyrgyzstan, 20 min

Discussions

12:30 -14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: The Silk Road Heritage Corridors: Coordination, Management,
Sustainable Tourism and Monitoring

Moderator: Zhanat Seidaliyeva, Head of the department of historical and cultural

heritage of the Department of Culture and Arts, Kazakhstan

 UNESCO/EU project “Silk Roads Heritage Corridors in Afghanistan,

Central Asia and Iran – International Dimension of the European Year
of Cultural Heritage’ , Gulmira Rymbaeyva, Project Coordinator,
UNESCO Almaty , 30 min
 Promoting sustainable development in Kazakhstan through UNESCO-
designated sites and UNESCO project “World Heritage Journeys of
the European Union”, Aigul Khalafova, Culture Officer, UNESCO
Almaty, 20 min
  Promoting sustainable development in Kazakhstan through UNESCO-
designated sites, Aigul Khalafova, Culture Officer, UNESCO Almaty,
20 min

Discussions 20 min

15:30 -16:00 COFFEE-BREAK

16:00-18:00 Session 4: Silk Road Heritage Corridors: Strategy Development -

Coordination, Management, Sustainable Tourism and Monitoring

Moderator: Mr. Tim Williams, University College of London (United Kingdom)

 Presentation of the results for the Fergana-Syrdarya Heritage Corridor

nomination preparation, Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, Secretariat of the Fergana-Syrdarya Heritage Corridor
nomination preparation, 30 min
 Presentation on the results nomination preparation of “Silk Roads
Penjikent-Samarkand-Poykent Corridor”, Mr Dmitriy Voyakin, Director,
International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS), Secretariat of the
“Silk Roads Penjikent-Samarkand-Poykent Corridor” nomination
preparation, 30 min

Discussions 50 min

Day 2
27 June 2019
Objectives:
1. Discussing the management of World Heritage Properties along the Silk Road.
2. Develop conservation and management strategies for the overall Silk Roads heritage
corridors

Participating countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30 – 11:00 Session 5: Countries overview of the conservation and management along
the Silk Roads heritage corridors

Moderator: Ms Zevar Davlatzoda, Vice-Minister of Culture of the Republic of

Tajikistan

Country presentations, 15 min

 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan

Discussions 30 min
 11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 Session 6: Overview of the technical report: Achievements and challenges
& Resource document for Conservation and Management for Silk Roads
Corridors

Moderator: Mr. Roland Lin, Project Officer, Asia and the Pacific Unit, World
Heritage Centre

 Mr. Tim Williams, Draft Technical Project Report & Resource document
for Conservation and Management for Silk Roads Corridors, University
College of London (United Kingdom), 45 min

Discussions 45 min

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Experiences sharing for the heritage corridors cultural
landscape documentation & tourism

Moderator: Bakyt Amanbaeva, Head of Center for Cultural Heritage Institute of

History and Cultural Heritage of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz
Republic

 Mr. Tim Winter, Silk Road heritage tourism corridors: mapping the routes
of connection, Professor, Critical Heritage Studies, University of Western
Australia, 30 min
 Mr. HE Jie, Experiences sharing for the heritage corridors cultural
landscape documentation in China and in Nepal, Associate Professor &
Associate Director, Institute of Digital Design, School of Architecture,
Tianjin University (China), 30 min

Discussions 30 min

15:30 -15:45 COFFEE-BREAK

15:45 - 18:00 Session 8: Develop conservation and management strategies for the
overall Silk Roads heritage corridors

Moderators : Mr. Kazuya Yamauchi, Professor, Research Institute of Cultural

Properties, Teikyo University, Japan & Ms. Aigul Khalafova, Culture Officer,
UNESCO Almaty

18:30 – 20:00 WELCOME DINNER

   
 Day 3
28 June 2019

Closing Meeting of the UNESCO / Japanese Funds-in-Trust Project

"Supporting the Silk Roads in Central Asia" phase II

09:00 – 09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30 – 09:45 Opening

Welcome speech:
 Mr. Roland Lin, Project Officer, Asia and the Pacific Unit, World Heritage
Centre
 Ambassador, Embassy of Japan to Kazakhstan, or his/her representative
– to be confirmed

09:45 – 11:00 Session 1: Results of the UNESCO/ JFIT project for supporting Central
Asian Silk Roads sites

Moderator: Ms Zevar Davlatzoda, Vice-Minister of Culture of the Republic of

Tajikistan

Results of the UNESCO/ JFIT project for supporting Central Asian Silk Roads
sites

 Mr. Roland Lin, Project Officer, Asia and the Pacific Unit, World Heritage
Centre, 20 min
 Mr. Kazuya Yamauchi, Professor, Research Institute of Cultural
Properties, Teikyo University, Japan, 20 min
 Mr. Tim Williams, Winding up the required collaboration from the related
Central Asian partners for the finalization of the Draft Technical Project
Report & Resource document for Conservation and Management for Silk
Roads Corridors, University College of London (United Kingdom), 30 min

Discussions

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK

11:30 – 12:30 Session 2: Countries overview of the UNESCO/ JFIT Phase II project results

Moderator: Sanjarbek Allayarov, Culture Programme Specialist UNESCO

Tashkent Office

Country presentations, 15 min

 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan

12:30 – 13:30 Session 4: Summary and closing

  Summarizing the results: Mr. Roland Lin, project Officer, Asia and the
Pacific Unit, World Heritage Centre

Closing:
 Representatives of country delegations

 UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office

13:30 - 14:30 FAREWELL LUNCH

15:00 – 19:00 CITY TOUR