EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
World Heritage in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This should focus on the Slovak-
Ukrainian-German World Heritage Property of beech forests. Both the Slovak and the
German delegation welcomed this proposal in principle but made it subject to the agreement
of the respective government. The Ukrainian delegation agreed to draw up a draft MoU and
to send it to the environment ministries in the Slovak Republic and Germany for coordination
as soon as all three national environment ministries officially confirmed that a MoU should be
agreed.
Furthermore, Dr Nickel informed the Slovak and Ukrainian delegations that Germany will
host the 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) in May 2008 and presented the main items on the agenda. In Germany's
view an important topic is the establishment of a global network of protected areas.
Consideration should be given to presenting the trinational beech forest nomination at this
UN conference in a proper manner.
The German delegation agreed to send the draft minutes of the trilateral meeting as soon as
possible to the environment ministries of the Slovak Republic and Ukraine for coordination.
All participants will receive a list of participants including coordinators and a CD with the
presentations.
Signed on 4 June 2007
Heike Britz
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Division N I 4 International Nature Conservation
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