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The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to UNESCO Ambassador Magdalena Marcinkowska on behalf of Poland submitted to the Director General Audrey Azouley the ratification document of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Thus Poland has ratified all UNESCO conventions on the protection of cultural heritage.After 3 months from the date of submission of the ratification document the UNESCO Convention of 2001 will enter into force for Poland and thus we will become the 69th state party to this international agreement. Among the European Union member states 14 states are currently parties to the UNESCO Convention of 2001.From among the member states of the Council of the Baltic Sea States the UNESCO Convention of 2001 has so far been ratified only by Lithuania and Estonia which will additionally contribute to the dissemination of standards and good practices resulting from the Convention in our region.The 2001 UNESCO Convention emphasizes the importance of the protection of underwater heritage in particular in situ and obliges the states-parties to take all actions consistent with international law aimed at preventing an immediate threat to underwater cultural heritage. An integral part of the Convention is the attached set of Principles regulating activities aimed at underwater cultural heritage which also set international standards of conduct in relation to underwater cultural heritage.The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage drawn up in Paris on November 2 2001 entered into force on January 2 2009.
