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The meeting gathers Afghan and international experts and representatives
of the Afghan government in order to review the work carried out in
2008 and discuss the future activities to be carried out in 2009,
notably for the consolidation and conservation of the Buddha niches.
The aims of this project are to improve the state of preservation
of the Bamiyan site, to ensure the long term consolidation of the
site, to increase the national capacity in the conservation of cultural
heritage, and to create a basis for the inception of cultural tourism
in Bamiyan.
Those activities are financed by the Japanese Trust Fund for the
Preservation of the World Cultural Heritage.
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