Halong – twice included in the Unesco world heritage list
To highlight and to preserve various valuable natural and the cultural areas environments throughout the world, UNESCO initiated the International Convention on Protecting the world Natural and Cultural and set up a World Heritage List, on which Ha Long’ name now appears twice.
In 1987, the Vietnam’s Government approved the Convention. In the early 1991, the Council of Ministers allowed Vietnam ‘s UNESCO Committee and the Ministry of Culture and Information to co-operate with some local authorities in drawing up the necessary scientific documents to introduce five natural and the cultural heritage sites, including Ha Long bay and submit them to UNESCO for its consideration.
The Ha Long dossier was set up in accordance with UNESCO’s general procedures, presenting many aspects, especially the global values of the heritage. By October 1993, it was complete and submitted to the World Heritage Council. Upon receipt of the dossier, the World Heritage Council dispatched a team of experts from ICOM (the International Council of Museums) and the IUCN (the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) to Ha Long to assess the information that it contained.
From February to October 1994, the fine details in the Ha Long dossier relating to boundaries, management, protection, and similar issues, were satisfactorily resolved and submitted to the World Heritage Council.
On 17th December 1994, at the 18th Congress of the World Heritage Council in Thailand, Ha Long bay was officially designated as a World Heritage on conformity with Criterion for aesthetic value.
In 1962, Ha Long’s other values, and particularly its geomorphologic and geological features, had been recognized at a national level. Following the successful nomination of Ha Long Bay for its aesthetic value, the attention of international experts turned to these other characteristics. In September 1998, in the suggestion of UNESCO, Dr. Tony Waltham, a famous professor of geology from the University of Nottingham in the UK, came to Ha Long to conduct research into its remarkable Karst limestone. Hic report was completed in July 1999 and a dossier in Ha Long’s geological values was submitted to the World Heritage Council held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, from 27th November to 2nd December 2000, UNESCO again recognized Ha Long bay in conformity with the criterion for special geological and geomorphologic values.
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