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Created by UNESCO in 1992, the Memory
of the World Programme, aims to prevent the irrevocable loss of documentary
heritage – documents or collections of documents of significant and enduring
value, whether on paper, audiovisual, digital or any other support. The
programme aims to safeguard this heritage and make it more accessible to the
general public. Inscriptions on the Memory of the World International Register
had to be suspended in 2017 due to disagreements between States over the
nomination process. An important collective effort has enabled the procedure to
be redesigned and nominations were re-launched in 2021. On 24 May 2023, they
resulted in the unanimous decision of the 216th session of UNESCO's
Executive Board to inscribe 64 new documentary collections, bringing the total number of listed collections to
494. New nominations of documentary heritage submitted by IICAS’s Member States
are following: "Flower Book" of Khurshidbanu Natavan – Album of
Illustrated Verses (Azerbaijan),
Mawlana’s Kulliyat - The Complete Works of Mawlana (Bulgaria, Germany, Iran, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan), The Four
Treatises of Tibetan Medicine (China),
Archives and Manuscripts of Macau Kong Tac Lam Temple (China), Documents on Iran’s International Relations Under the Qajar
Rule: 1807-1925 (Iran), Documents of the Shaykh
Safī-al-Dīn Ardabīlī Shrine: 952-1926 (Iran),
Manuscript of the Kyrgyz epic "Manas" by the narrator Sagymbay
Orozbakov (Kyrgyzstan), Stone Inscriptions of Tsogtu Khung-Taiji,
Prince of Khalkha (Mongolia),
Archives of the April 19 Revolution (Republic
of Korea), Archives of the Donghak Peasant Revolution (Republic of Korea), Yildiz Palace Photography Collection (Türkiye), The Collection of Kâtip
Çelebi: Cihânnümâ and Kashf al-Zunun (Türkiye),
The Qushbegi Chancellery of the Bukhara Emirate (Uzbekistan).
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