Urgently implement the nomination dossier of Oc Eo - Ba The Archaeological Site to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage site

(AG Provincial Portal) - On the morning of November 7, Provincial Party Committee member, Vice Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Le Van Phuoc chaired a meeting to listen to an overview report on the activities of the Oc Eo Cultural Relics Management Board and a report on the progress of the implementation of the nomination dossier for the Oc Eo - Ba The Archaeological Relic Site to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage site.

Meeting scene

Representatives of the leaders of relevant departments, branches and sectors; Executive members of the construction of the scientific dossier of the Oc Eo - Ba The archaeological site in An Giang province; Contractor No. 3 - Preparing the nomination dossier and management plan including: Joint venture of the Institute of Monuments Conservation - Center for Applied Geology, Heritage and Environment Research - University of Social Sciences and Humanities; My Thuan commune, Oc Eo commune attended.

Oc Eo - Ba The culture is an important archaeological culture of the Kingdom of Funan, which developed from the 1st to the 7th century AD in the lower Mekong River region (Vietnam). The Oc Eo - Ba The relic site in An Giang is an important center of this culture, once a bustling urban and port city with many architectural, urban, religious and international trade vestiges. This relic site has been ranked as a special national monument and is in the process of preparing documents to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage site.

According to the Oc Eo Cultural Relic Management Board, the Management Board has organized a public bidding to select the unit to implement packages 3, 4, 5. Currently, Package 5 has completed 100% of the tasks and disbursed funds to implement the demarcation, planting of markers to protect the Oc Eo - Ba The Special National Relic Site. For Package 4, the work of communication, propaganda, and promotion of the Relic Site has completed a documentary film, is building reports to be shown on national and international television, building souvenir publications; and implementing nomination documents at the World Heritage Center in Paris, France in 2025. Package 3 is to prepare nomination documents and a management plan for the Oc Eo - Ba The Archaeological Relic Site. The province organized an international scientific workshop: Consultation on “Outstanding global values ​​and criteria for nominating World Heritage for the Oc Eo - Ba The Archaeological Site”, and worked with central ministries and branches on issues related to the nomination dossier of the Site. The total estimated budget is 36,865,007,000 VND, of which the provincial budget is 36,418,760,000 VND, and the socialized source is 446,247,000 VND.

Mr. Nguyen Van Nhien - Director of the Oc Eo Cultural Relics Management Board reported on the Board's activities and the progress of the nomination dossier for the Oc Eo - Ba The Archaeological Relics Site to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage site at the meeting.

Mr. Dang Khanh Ngoc - Director of the Institute for Monument Conservation, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism reported on the implementation of the Profile at the meeting.

In the coming time, the Oc Eo Cultural Relics Management Board will continue to edit and complete the nomination dossier according to the comments of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, central ministries and branches and the National Cultural Heritage Council. Receive the preliminary assessment report of the World Heritage Center on the draft nomination dossier and continue to edit according to the comments. Organize a scientific workshop to receive comments from domestic experts to complete the nomination dossier (expected to be held in Hanoi on November 24, 2025). Complete the nomination dossier and send it to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for appraisal and submission to the Prime Minister for approval to send it to the UNESCO World Heritage Center (striving to complete before December 15, 2025).

Vice Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Le Van Phuoc delivered a concluding speech at the meeting.

Speaking at the conclusion of the meeting, Vice Chairman of An Giang Provincial People's Committee Le Van Phuoc basically agreed with the report of the relic management board and the consulting unit in building the dossier.

In the coming time, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that it is necessary to determine that the preparation of a dossier to nominate the Oc Eo - Ba The Cultural Archaeological Relic Site to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a world heritage site is an important political task of the country in general and An Giang province in particular. Therefore, the Oc Eo Relic Management Board together with departments, branches and consulting units are required to make efforts to support in order to achieve progress and ensure the quality of the nomination dossier.

Assign the Oc Eo Relic Management Board to promptly reorganize the Executive Board as well as the Working Group and assign specific tasks to each member; as the investor, the Management Board needs to strengthen close coordination with relevant ministries, branches, departments, branches and localities to proactively carry out tasks to handle difficulties and problems; if beyond authority, promptly report to superiors for consideration and resolution; preside and coordinate with relevant departments and branches to develop detailed daily and weekly progress plans in the spirit of 6 clarity: Clear people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear products, clear authority; promote propaganda work on the consensus of the people in Oc Eo and My Thuan communes.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee agreed to organize working delegations of An Giang province to work with central ministries and branches to collect opinions on sending the official nomination dossier to UNESCO. Organize working delegations to study experiences at the World Heritage Sites of Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son, Kiep Bac in Quang Ninh province to exchange experiences in working with the UNESCO delegation, protecting the nomination dossier and the management and conservation of heritage after being listed as a World Heritage./.

Source: https://angiang.gov.vn/vi/khan-truong-thuc-hien-ho-so-de-cu-khu-di-tich-khao-co-oc-eo-ba-trinh-unesco-cong-nhan-di-san-gioi