The National Committee for the World Heritage is dismayed at the distortion of the facts voiced by a group of Thai extremists who made a consecutive statement, reported on ASTV manager online, dated on 18 November 2010 that “UNESCO inscribed the Khmer Royal Ballet into the World Heritage List, though both music and dance of its modern forms are of Thai characteristics.” The National Committee for the World Heritage would like to provide an explanation to the above unreasonable and baseless claim as follows: The Kingdom of Cambodia and the 132 states parties (by 2010) to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) are under duty to conserve and preserve the World Intangible Cultural Heritage of common importance for present and future generations of humanity. From the past day upto the present time, the Kingdom of Cambodia has still constituted a cultural loft of both tangible and intangible heritage, and there is no doubt that Cambodian Royal Ballet w...