A delegation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) made this promise during a recent visit to the temple in border province of Preah Vihear, it said.
UN will arrange activities to promote the cooperation between Cambodia and UNESCO in the fields of finance and technique to protect the site, AKP quoted government officials as saying.
The delegation will continue its visit till late March to find more ways for conservation of the temple, they added.
The Preah Vihear temple was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2008.
Cambodia to ask UN to list 1,400-year-old temple as world heritage site
PHNOM PENH, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia will ask UN to list the Sambo Prey Kuk temple, which was built from 615 A.D. to 650 A.D., located in the Kompong Thom province, as a world heritage site, Khmer-language daily newspaper the Rasmei Kampuchea reported on Monday.
"We are preparing the proposal for UN to register the temple, which was built during the rule of Khmer King Isanverman I, with the Committee of World Heritage," the newspaper quoted Som Sokhun, secretary of state at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, as saying. Full story
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