(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - The secretariat of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has come out against a bid by the Palestinian Authority to use an emergency procedure to register Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity under the country of "Palestine" as a World Heritage site. The PA had asked the World Heritage Committee to add the church to its list through a procedure reserved for endangered sites. Israel has opposed registering the site under Palestine, until such time as it becomes a state as a result of a negotiated end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel does support registering the church as a World Heritage site, and would have wanted to present it to the committee together with the Palestinians as a joint endeavor.
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