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II. XATIOXAL I'ROTECTIOX AXD INTF.RXATIOXAL PHOTKCTIOX OF THE 

 CULTURAL AXD NATURAL HERITAGE 



Article 4 



Each Stntc Party to this Convention recognizes that tlie duty of 

 ensuring tlie identification. i)i'otection, consei-vation, prosejitation and 

 transmission to future generations of the cultural and natural heritage 

 referred to in Articles 1 and 2 and situater[ onlfs territory, beloiiirs 

 primarily to that State. It will do all it can to this end, to the utmost 

 of its own resources and. where appropriate, with any international 

 assistanceand co-operation, in particular, financial, artistic, scientific 

 and technical, which it may be able to obtain. 



Article 5 



To ensure that effective and active measures are taken for the pro- 

 tection, conservation, and presentatioji of the cultural and natural 

 heritage situated on its territory, each State Party to this Convention 

 ffihall endeavour, in so far as possible, and as appropriate for each, 

 country : 



(a) to adopt a general policy which aims to give the cultural 

 and natural heritage a function in the life of the community and 

 to integrate the protection of that heritage into comprehensive 

 planning programmes ; 



(&) to set up within its territories, where such services do not 

 exist, one or more services for tlie protection, conservation and 

 presentation of the cultural and natural heritage with an appro- 

 priate staff and possessing the means to discharge their functions; 



(c) to develop scientific and technical studies and research and 

 to work out such operating methods as will make the State capable 

 of counteracting the dangers that threaten its cultural or natural 

 heritage ; 



{(I) to take the appropriate legal, scientific, technical, adminis- 

 trative and linancial measures necessary for the identification, pro- 

 tection, conservation, pi'esentation and rehabilitation of this 

 heritage; and 



(e) to foster the establishment or development of national or 

 regional centres for training in the protection, conservation and 

 presentation of the cultural and natural heritage and to encourage 

 scientific research in this field. 



Article 6 



1. "Whilst fully respecting the sovereignty of the States on whose 

 territory the cultural and natural heritage mentioned in Articles 1 and 

 2 is situated, and without prejudice to property rights provided by 

 national legislation, the States Parties to this Convention recofi-nize 

 that such heritage constitutes a world heritage for whose protection it 

 is the duty of the international community as a whole to co-operate. 



2. The States Parties undertake, in accordance with the provisions of 

 this Convention, to give their help in the identification, protection, con- 

 servation and preservation of the cultural and natural heritage referred 

 to in paragrai)hs 2 and 4 of Article 11 if the States on whose territory 

 it is situated so request. 



