The present booklet contains materials from the Russian-Mongolian nomination dossier of Landscapes of Dauria, submitted to the World Heritage Centre for the Committee’s consideration in 2015.

Sub-Regional Meeting on the nomination of the Western Tien-Shan as a serial transnational World Heritage property attended by specialists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan was held with the support of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on May, 23-24 in Bishkek.

According to the procedure rules, "Landscapes of Dauria” nomination submitted to the World Heritage Centre on January 31, 2013, has been technically reviewed for its completeness during February. As a result of the expert evaluation the nomination was determined to be incomplete under two reasons as follows.

The List of Committee members has been approved and the Committee program for 2013–2014 has been discussed at the meeting. The most topical issues associated with preservation of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in the Russian Federation and abroad have been discussed. The Committee members, V. Neronov (Vice-chairperson of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO “The Man and the Biosphere”) and A. Butorin (President of the Natural Heritage Protection Fund) have reported on the implementation of the natural section of the Convention.

Participants of the discussion have uniformly concluded about the necessity to make further work for inscription besides Kungurskaya and Ordynskaya caves (related works have been performed since 2008), also the brightest displays of the Permian karst plateau which joints a whole set of objects being unique under its natural value on the UNESCO World Heritage List. A resonant “Permian period’s park” working title of the future nomination was offered.