Armenia to develop application for inclusion of Areni-1 Cave site in  UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List

ArmInfo. In Armenia, an application will be developed to include the site "Areni-1 Cave and Adjacent Wine Landscape" of the Vayots Dzor region in the preliminary list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport  (MECS) of Armenia.

To achieve this goal, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between  the MECS of Armenia, the "Enotourism Council of Armenia" public  organization and the "Areni-1 Cave" research foundation.

The memorandum was signed by Deputy Minister of Education, Science,  Culture and Sport of Armenia Alfred Kocharyan, Executive Director of  the "Enotourism Council of Armenia" public organization Tigran  Martirosyan and Acting Director of the "Areni-1 Cave" research  foundation Boris Gasparyan.

"Attaching great importance to the value of historical and cultural  heritage, its popularization and transfer to future generations, the  parties plan to cooperate by working together to develop an  application for the inclusion of the "Areni-1 Cave and Adjacent Wine  Landscape" site of the Vayots Dzor region in the UNESCO World  Heritage Tentative List," the MES said in a statement. Deputy  Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Alfred Kocharyan stressed the  importance of signing the memorandum of cooperation and noted that  thanks to joint efforts, new monuments were included in the UNESCO  World Heritage List after a long break, and this process should be  continuous.