Declaration by His Excellency Dr. Sok An Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee and Deputy Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, 14 December 2012) Twenty years ago, to this very day, on 14 December 1992, in Santa Fe, in the USA, the World Heritage Committee at its 16 th session, decided to inscribe ANGKOR on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. That decision, innovative and very courageous for that time, expressed clearly the concern of the international community to cooperate with Cambodia to address effectively and speedily the urgent problems of conservation and safeguarding faced by the many groups of monuments spread throughout an archaeological zone of 40.000 ha, including Roluos, to the south, and Banteay Srey, to the north. Since then, under the patronage of UNESCO and the joint presidency of FRANCE and JAPAN, international support on a grand scale has been generated involving 16 countries from 4 continents. Some 36 or...