International Coordination Mechanisms of the Serial Transnational Nomination «Silk Road»

Abstract

The serial transnational nominations are becoming as of today one of the special directions of the World Heritage Convention. The most complicated and challenging serial transnational nomination is the unique phenomenon of the human civilization – the Silk Road. The significant number of sites proposed by countries after the harmonization process for the further inclusion into the UNSECO List definitely increases the risk of lowering the value of the World Heritage List, because exactly during the process of inclusion of a big number of sites it becomes possible in the national and transnational nominations to include the objects without enough potential to include into the List. Exactly that is the reason why the processes of harmonization, as well as the international coordination are put in the forefront. The system of inclusion of additional key executive authorities into the process of coordination is the basic vector of development in the concept of international coordination. In the case, the adopted decisions would be more balanced, and the next coordination, especially in the complex situations would have the necessary complexness with the required level of adoption of balanced decisions.
Key words: UNESCO, Serial Transnational Nomination, Silk Road, International Coordination.