UNESCO com­mends Zam­bia, Zim­b­abwe ties

 

Talha impressed with coun­tries’pre­ser­va­tion of prop­erty

UNITED Nations Edu­ca­tional, Sci­entific and Cul­tural Organ­isa­tion (UNESCO) gen­eral con­fer­ence pres­id­ent Khondker Mohammad Talha has com­men­ded Zam­bia and Zim­b­abwe’s col­lab­or­a­tion in pre­serving the integ­rity and global sig­ni­fic­ance of the Vic­toria Falls.

He said this dur­ing a high-level visit to the Vic­toria Falls World Her­it­age Site.

The visit was under­taken to appre­ci­ate and assess the con­tin­ued efforts by the gov­ern­ments of Zam­bia and Zim­b­abwe in safe­guard­ing the site’s out­stand­ing uni­ver­sal value, in line with the oper­a­tional guidelines of the UNESCO World Her­it­age Con­ven­tion.

The high-level tour star­ted on the Zim­b­ab­wean side of the trans­bound­ary prop­erty and con­cluded in Zam­bia, demon­strat­ing the shared respons­ib­il­ity and coordin­ated man­age­ment of one of the world’s most cel­eb­rated nat­ural her­it­age sites.

Speak­ing after tour­ing key sec­tions of the site, includ­ing the East­ern Catar­act where the rain­forest is on the Zam­bian side, Mr Talha expressed admir­a­tion for the strong spirit of col­lab­or­a­tion between the two coun­tries in pre­serving the prop­erty.

“I am par­tic­u­larly impressed by the col­lab­or­a­tion between Zam­bia and Zim­b­abwe in pre­serving the out­stand­ing uni­ver­sal value of the prop­erty,” he said.

National Her­it­age Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion con­ser­va­tion officer John Zulu noted that such vis­its reaf­firm the strength of bilat­eral cooper­a­tion and provide an import­ant plat­form to show­case the ongo­ing efforts towards sus­tain­able con­ser­va­tion and her­it­age man­age­ment.

He emphas­ised the sig­ni­fic­ance of the visit, stat­ing that such high­level engage­ments val­id­ate ongo­ing con­ser­va­tion ini­ti­at­ives while enhan­cing inter­na­tional recog­ni­tion and sup­port for her­it­age pre­ser­va­tion efforts in the region.

“The visit fur­ther high­lights the global import­ance of the Mosi-oaTunya/Vic­toria Falls as a shared nat­ural asset requir­ing con­tin­ued joint stew­ard­ship,” he said, accord­ing to a state­ment issued by the National Her­it­age Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion com­mu­nic­a­tion unit.

Source: UNESCO com­mends Zam­bia, Zim­b­abwe ties (Zambia Daily Mail, 4th May 2026)