9 June. On 9 - 10 June, ICCROM is hosting a UNESCO meeting on Afghan heritage sites. The meeting is of the 'Expert Working
Group for the Preservation of the Jam and Herat Sites' and is being attended by representatives of the Afghan government, UNESCO, the Italian Government, ICCROM, and a number of international experts.

Participants

Afghan experts and officials

• Mr Ghulam Nabi Farahi, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Finance and Administration
• Mr Sayed Husain Annwari, Herat Governor
• H. E. Mr Mohammad Zahir Aziz, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Afghanistan to UNESCO
• Mr Nadjibollah Manalai, Deputy Minister of Culture, Ministry of Culture and Information (MoCI)
• Ms Fatima Zaher, First Secretary of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Italy
• Mr Abdul Ahad Abassy, Director, Department of Historical Monuments, MoCI
• Mr Nader Rassoli, Director, Institute of Archaeology, MoCI

Italian officials

• Mr Mauro Massoni, Capo Ufficio II Direzione Generale Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Ms Rita Gonelli, architect, expert, Unitá Tecnica Centrale, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

ICCROM

• Mr Mounir Bouchenaki, Director-General, ICCROM
• Mr Gamini Wijesuriya, Project Manager of the Sites Unit

International experts

• Mr Alberto Boccato, hydrology engineer, Beta Studio, Italy
• Professor Andrea Bruno, architect, Advisor on Afghanistan to UNESCO’s Assistant Director General for Culture
• Mr Paolo Clemente, structural engineer, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (Enea), Italy
• Professor Michael Jansen, Director of the Department of Urban History, RWTH Aachen University/ICOMOS Germany, Germany
• Mr Alberto Lodigiani, structural engineer, Alga, Italy
• Professor Claudio Margottini, geophysical engineer, Governmental Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services (APAT), Italy
• Mr Tarcis Stevens, architect conservator

UNESCO

• Mr Giovanni Boccardi, Chief of Unit, Asia and Pacific, World Heritage Centre
• Ms Sabrina Zannier, World Heritage Centre
• Mr Brendan Cassar, UNESCO Kabul Office
• Mr Emal Rasuli, UNESCO Kabul Office

Observers

• Mr Giacomo Buffarini, engineer researcher, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy
  and the Environment (Enea), Italy
• Dr Giuseppe Delmonaco, Governmental Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services (APAT), Italy

updated on: 19 June, 2008