New Delhi, July 13: India has extended help to UNESCO to restore heritage sites in different countries, even as a team of experts will go to Cambodia to undertake restoration work of a temple. "We have extended help to UNSECO in its work to restore heritage sites at various places. I told UNSECO Director General K Matsuura that we have already undertaken one such project in Cambodia," Culture Minister Jagmohan, who recently held a meeting with the visiting dg, said here.

Pointing out that the country has lot of expertise in the conservation field, Jagmohan said the experts could undertake projects at Bamiyan and other places. The minister said he also emphasised on the need to include more monuments of historical importance to UNESCO's list of world heritage sites.

"I told Matsuura that a country like India, where there is treasure of historical monuments, Deserves more sites to be enlisted in the world heritage site," Jagmohan said.

"At present there are only 24 historical sites in India which have been granted world heritage site status by UNSECO, whereas the country has nearly 3,600 protected monuments," the minister said. Bureau Report