| | World Heritage Committee: Report of 22nd Session Kyoto 1998 |
 | | The complete list of participants is given in Annex I. The outgoing Chairperson of the Committee, Mr Francesco Francioni (Italy), opened the twenty-second session by thanking the Government of Japan, as well as the Prefecture and the City of Kyoto for generously hosting the Committee. |
 | | He concluded by indicating the importance of the venue of this session of the Committee, as the City of Kyoto, established more than 1200 years ago and designed to be in harmony with its natural surroundings has always placed culture as the goal of its development. |
 | | An acceleration of eutrophication and the transition of Srebarna from a lake to a marsh, the decline of biodiversity (particularly fish species), the diminished use of the area by rare and threatened resident and migratory bird species, and reduced nesting success ratios of key breeding bird species of World Heritage significance was also noted. |
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