Updates since last WHS conference in BOLD

1) Not in Unesco (11):
Liechtenstein, Kosovo (with a WHS)(Serbia), Northern Cyprus (Cyprus), Taiwan (China), Western Sahara (one T-site) (Morocco), Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), Somaliland (Somalia), Islamic State (3 WHS, several T-sites) (Iraq and Syria), Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan).

2) Unesco members which didn't sign the WH convention (5):
South Sudan, Somalia, Timor Leste, Tuvalu, Nauru.

3) Member states and special territories with no T-list (17):
Sao Tome, Equatorial Guinea, Niue, Cook Islands, Liberia, Brunei, Monaco, Chechnya (Russia), French Guyana (France), Faroe (Denmark), Man (UK), Bougainville (PNG), Marianas and Guam (USA), Falkland and Southern Georgia (UK), Chagos (UK), Tokelau (NZ), Navajo Nation (USA).

4) Member states and special territories with T-list but no sites proposed (12):
Bahamas, Swaziland, Burundi, Comoros, Samoa, Bhutan, Trinidad Tobago, Grenada, St Vincent, Sierra Leone, Djibouti, British Caribbean (UK), Jan Mayen and Svalbard (Norway).

5) Member states and special territories with sites proposed but none inscribed not currently pursuing nomination (2):
Guyana, Guinea Bissau (Def 2013).

6) Member states and special territories with sites proposed but none inscribed currently pursuing nomination (11):
Maldives (running 2017), Gibraltar - UK (running 2016), Angola (incomplete 2016, running 2018), French Polynesia - France (running 2017), Tonga (running 2017), Kuwait (running 2017), French Caribbean - France (running 2018), Micronesia (running 2016), Antigua and Barbuda (running 2016), Rwanda (running 2018), Eritrea (running 2017).

7) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed and no tentative list (5):
Belize, Puerto Rico (USA), New Caledonia (France), West Papua (Indonesia), Singapore.

8) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed with a tentative list not pursuing further nominations (21):
Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Vanuatu, Cape Verde, Solomons, Mozambique, El Salvador, Andorra, Haiti, Togo, PNG, Burkina Faso, St. Helena (UK), Tibet (China), Fiji, Qatar, Guinea, Congo (Rep), Lesotho, Dominica, Jamaica.

9) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed with further sites proposed not currently pursuing further nominations (8):
Gabon (Ref 2005), Paraguay (Rej 2005), Dominican Rep (Def 2005), Marshalls (Incompl 2010), Palau (Incompl 2010), Macedonia (Withd 2012), Zambia (Def 2014), Benin (Def 2012).

10) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed currently pursuing further nominations (6):
UAE (running 2017), Chad (running 2016), Myanmar (running 2017), Moldova (Incompl 2016), Dutch Caribbean (running 2019), Greenland (Denmark) (running 2018).

Maldives, Tonga, Kuwait and Myanmar are not running for 2017, perhaps 2018?

According to http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2016/whc16-40com14-en.pdf, Equatorial Guinea and Liberia just have received financial assistance to develop a Tentative List.

Plus there are funded updates for Cabo Verde, El Salvador and Paraguay.

Updates since last WHS conference in BOLD

1) Not in Unesco (11):
Liechtenstein, Kosovo (with a WHS)(Serbia), Northern Cyprus (Cyprus), Taiwan (China), Western Sahara (one T-site) (Morocco), Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), Somaliland (Somalia), Islamic State (3 WHS, several T-sites) (Iraq and Syria), Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan).

2) Unesco members which didn't sign the WH convention (5):
South Sudan, Somalia, Timor Leste (interested in joining in), Tuvalu (interested in joining in), Nauru (interested in joining in).

3) Member states and special territories with no T-list (17):
Sao Tome (working on a T-list), Equatorial Guinea (working on a T-list), Niue (working on a T-list), Cook Islands (working on a T-list), Liberia (working on a T-list), Brunei (working on a T-list), Monaco, Chechnya (Russia), French Guyana (France), Faroe (Denmark), Man (UK), Bougainville (PNG), Marianas and Guam (USA), Falkland and Southern Georgia (UK), Chagos (UK), Tokelau (NZ), Navajo Nation (USA).

4) Member states and special territories with T-list but no sites proposed (11):
Bahamas, Swaziland, Burundi, Samoa, Bhutan, Trinidad Tobago, Grenada, St Vincent, Sierra Leone, Djibouti, British Caribbean (UK), Jan Mayen and Svalbard (Norway).

5) Member states and special territories with sites proposed but none inscribed not currently pursuing nomination (2):
Guyana, Guinea Bissau (Def 2013).

6) Member states and special territories with sites proposed but none inscribed currently pursuing nomination (12):
Maldives (running soon), Gibraltar - UK (running 2016), Angola (incomplete 2016, running 2017), French Polynesia - France (running 2017), Tonga (running soon), Kuwait (running soon), French Caribbean - France (running 2018), Micronesia (running 2016), Antigua and Barbuda (running 2016), Rwanda (running 2018), Eritrea (running 2017), Comoros (running soon).

7) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed and no tentative list (5):
Belize, Puerto Rico (USA), New Caledonia (France), West Papua (Indonesia), Singapore.

8) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed with a tentative list not pursuing further nominations (20):
Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Vanuatu, Cape Verde (reworking T-list), Solomons, Mozambique, El Salvador (reworking T-list), Andorra, Haiti, Togo, PNG, St. Helena (UK), Tibet (China), Fiji, Qatar, Guinea, Congo (Rep), Lesotho, Dominica, Jamaica.

9) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed with further sites proposed not currently pursuing further nominations (7):
Gabon (Ref 2005), Paraguay (Rej 2005) (reworking T-list), Dominican Rep (Def 2005), Marshalls (Incompl 2010), Palau (Incompl 2010), Macedonia (Withd 2012), Zambia (Def 2014).

10) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed currently pursuing further nominations (8):
UAE (running 2017), Chad (running 2016), Myanmar (running soon), Moldova (Incompl 2016), Dutch Caribbean (running 2019), Greenland (Denmark) (running 2017), Burkina Faso (running 2017), Benin (running 2017).

An interesting link that lists the Kurdish heritage :

https://www.reddit.com/r/kurdistan/comments/4kr9nt/in_the_event_of_kurdish_independen ce_what_will_or/?

I think they're spanning the boundaries for 'Greater Kurdistan' very wide. It's quite a political point-of-view. A site such as Takht-e Soleyman to me looks outside of the region where the Kurds are in a majority.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan#/media/File:Kurdish-inhabited_area_by_CIA_(19 92).jpg

In fact, what attracted me was not the fact that these sites are Kurdish or not, strictly speaking, it is also it allows to discover interesting places not very known (Ain Dara, Amadiyah, Lalish, Shanidar which could complement the caves of Gibraltar...).

Well I guess all "views" about where the boundaries of "Greater Kurdistan" should lie, are "political" (including those of Iran)! This guy has certainly gone OTT in adding together a great list of inscribed and T List sites and placing "Kurdistan" above other countries but his claims about Takht-e Soleyman are among the less "extreme" of those he makes!

It does seem that it is "mainstream" among Kurds to claim Takht-e Soleyman as part of greater Kurdistan and part of the Kurdish cultural heritage.
a. I took a rather nice photo of a couple of Kurds at Takht-e Soleymen in their national costume visiting this site belonging (as they saw it) to their culture. It seems that the Kurds claim the Medes as their forebears so that anything relating to that historical group is "Kurdish"!
b. See this extract from a book which I don't believe to be "Kurdish" in origin which specifically mentions Tahkt-e as being within the Kurdish area
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zE83AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=takht-e+soleym an+kurdistan&source=bl&ots=n-a8uWMxZT&sig=Vh5ZX-vyHl0VlgMXYC3ynukzYoc&hl=en&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwjwjv6JyJDNAhUmCcAKHVv4DWYQ6AEIVTAN#v=onepage&q=takht-e%20soleyman%20kurdistan& f=false
c. Then there is this "Propagandist" clip from YouTube which describes Takht-e thus "The Largest & oldest Zoroasterian Fire Temple of Kurdistan " Takht-i Sulaiman " - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMOeNVAl5c

Of the nine inscribed sites, I think all are acceptable except perhaps Dvirigi and Assur.

SOMALIA
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1508

SOUTH SUDAN
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49376&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

SOUTH SUDAN
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1513/

The article from Monaco only mentions the country's support for the transnational inscription of the Alpi Marittime-Mercantour nomination, not any possible Monegasque site.

Updates since last WHS conference in BOLD

1) Not in Unesco (11):
Liechtenstein, Kosovo (with a WHS)(Serbia), Northern Cyprus (Cyprus), Taiwan (China), Western Sahara (one T-site) (Morocco), Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), Somaliland (Somalia), Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan).

2) Unesco members which didn't sign the WH convention (4):
Somalia (interested in joining in), Timor Leste (interested in joining in), Tuvalu (interested in joining in), Nauru (interested in joining in).

3) Member states and special territories with no T-list (18):
South Sudan, Sao Tome (working on a T-list), Equatorial Guinea (working on a T-list), Niue (working on a T-list), Cook Islands (working on a T-list), Liberia (working on a T-list), Brunei (working on a T-list), Monaco, Chechnya (Russia), French Guyana (France), Faroe (Denmark), Man (UK), Bougainville (PNG), Marianas and Guam (USA), Falkland and Southern Georgia (UK), Chagos (UK), Tokelau (NZ), Navajo Nation (USA).

4) Member states and special territories with T-list but no sites proposed (13):
Tonga (running soon), Kuwait (running soon), Bahamas, Swaziland, Burundi, Samoa, Bhutan, Trinidad Tobago, Grenada (running soon), St Vincent (running soon), Sierra Leone, Djibouti, British Caribbean (UK), Jan Mayen and Svalbard (Norway).

5) Member states and special territories with sites proposed but none inscribed not currently pursuing nomination (2):
Guyana, Guinea Bissau (Def 2013).

6) Member states and special territories with sites proposed but none inscribed currently pursuing nomination (10):
Maldives (running 2018?), Gibraltar - UK (running 2016), Angola (running 2017), French Polynesia - France (running 2017), French Caribbean - France (running 2018?), Micronesia (running 2016), Antigua and Barbuda (running 2016), Rwanda (running 2018?), Eritrea (running 2017), Comoros (running 2018?).

7) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed and no tentative list (7):
Belize, Puerto Rico (USA), New Caledonia (France), West Papua (Indonesia), Singapore, Luxemburg, Kiribati.

8) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed with a tentative list not pursuing further nominations (20):
Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Vanuatu, Cape Verde (reworking T-list), Solomons, Mozambique, El Salvador (reworking T-list), Andorra, Haiti, Togo, PNG, St. Helena (UK), Fiji, Qatar, Guinea, Congo (Rep), Lesotho, Dominica, Jamaica, Tibet (China).

9) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed with further sites proposed not currently pursuing further nominations (7):
Gabon (Ref 2005), Paraguay (Rej 2005) (reworking T-list), Dominican Rep (Def 2005), Marshalls (Incompl 2010), Palau (Incompl 2010), Macedonia (Withd 2012), Zambia (Def 2014).

10) Member states and special territories with only one site inscribed currently pursuing further nominations (9):
UAE (running 2017), Chad (running 2016), Myanmar (running 2018?), Moldova (running 2017), Dutch Caribbean (running 2019), Greenland (Denmark) (running 2017), Burkina Faso (running 2017), Benin (running 2017).

San Marino & Luxembourg: one site inscribed, no T-list