"We are ambitious and we want as many cultural monuments on the UNESCO list as possible," Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic said at a press conference in Zagreb on Wednesday.
The visiting Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Francesco Bandarin, said that UNESCO would hold a session next month to discuss new cultural and natural properties and that each country could propose two sites a year, of which one should be a natural site.
Bandarin said that the purpose of his visit was to further strengthen good relations between Croatia and UNESCO, and to assess the needs for the preservation of the heritage.
During his visit from June 15 to 19, Bandarin will tour the locations in Croatia which are listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites -- the Plitvice Lakes, Zadar, Trogir, Split, Hvar and Dubrovnik.
The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was signed by 182 countries. The World Heritage List contains 788 cultural properties, half of which are in Europe.