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II. NATIONAL PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE
CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

Article 4
Each State Party to this Convention recognizes
that the duty of ensuring the identification,
protection, conservation, presentation and
transmission to future generations of the cultural
and natural heritage referred to in Articles 1 and 2
and situated on its territory, belongs
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 assist
ance and 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 protection, conservation and
presentation of the cultural and natural heritage
situated on its territory, each State Party to
this Convention shall endeavor, 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;

(b) to set up within its territories, where such
services do not exist, one or more services
for the protection, conservation and presenta
tion of the cultural and natural heritage
with an appropriate staff and possessing the
means to discharge their functions;

(c) to develop scientific and technical studi
es and research and to work out such
operating methods as will make the State cap
able of counteracting the dangers that
threaten its cultural or natural heritage;

(d) to take the appropriate legal, scientif
ic, technical, administrative and financial
measures necessary for the identification,
protection, conservation, presentation 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 right provided by national legi
slation, the States Parties to this
Convention recognize 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, prot
ection, conservation and presentation of the
cultural and natural heritage referred to in
paragraphs 2 and 4 of Article 11 if the
States on whose territory it is situated so request.

3. Each State Party to this Convention undert
akes not to take any deliberate measures
which might damage directly or indirectly the
cultural and natural heritage referred to
in Articles 1 and 2 situated on the territory of
other States Parties to this Convention.
 
Article 7
For the purpose of this Convention, international
protection of the world cultural and natural
heritage shall be understood to mean the esta
blishment of a system of international co-
operation and assistance designed to support States
Parties to the Convention in their efforts
to conserve and identify that heritage.
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