Iran has extensive experience in preparing cases to be registered in World Heritage List," Kuisch Laroche said on Sunday.
Kuisch Laroche pointed to preparing tourism strategic planning and holding cultural heritage workshops as the most important cultural programs of UNESCO by the end of 2016, and said, "A tourism strategy as well as a workshop on underwater cultural heritage is to be held in partnership with ICHHTO."
She also referred to commemorating World Science Day for Peace and Development on November 10 as the most important program in the field of science by UNESCO office in Tehran.
"The World Heritage Committee consists of 22 countries so this is not the UNESCO secretariat, but it is the committee which decides about each nomination whether or not they are accepted," Kuisch Laroche said.
She said that the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran covers 4 countries namely Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, adding, "We cover activities in education, culture, science and communication."
Regarding Yazd city which was introduced by Iran as the first world city, she said, "Each country has its own nomination and each year Iran also places its heritage sites in the list and every two years a proposal is issued to UNESCO and then we send some independent experts to come and check the sites and experts report to the World Heritage Committee and give their advice."
In May 2015, Iran called for serious cooperation between the regional states and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to protect the cultural heritage existing in the region.
Regional governments have to work with international bodies such as UNESCO to protect the cultural heritage of the region, Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati told reporters in Lebanon.
He regretted that currently "extremist groups like the ISIL destroy the invaluable cultural and historical heritage in Iraq and Syria as previously did al-Qaeda in Afghanistan".
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