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International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage

(ICUCH)

RESOLUTION

The International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) of

ICOMOS, at its 16th meeting held at Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil, the 27th to28th October 2007,

Recognizingthe importance of the first International Symposium ofMaritime Archaeology in the Americas: littoral occupations, ships and boats,harbors and anchorages, held during the 24th, 25th and 26th of October, whoconnected participants from several continents and countries, and otherstakeholders, namely from the community of Itaparica,

Underlyingthe high quality presentations witnessed at this Symposium

covering a large variety and richness of the international themes of tangibleand non-tangible Maritime Heritage presented in a successfulinterdisciplinary approach which demonstrated the enormous potential ofthe underwater cultural heritage of Brazil,

Stressingthe excellence of its organization, provided by the BrazilianFederal, State, Municipal and Academic authorities including the Navy theArmy and the Federal University of Bahia,

Impressedby the mature management vision developed by Brazilian

archaeologists concerning the nautical and underwater cultural heritage oftheir country in accordance with the principles of the ICOMOS Charter onthe Protection and Management of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (Sofia1996) and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of UnderwaterCultural Heritage (Paris 2001),

Awareof the huge potential of the nautical and underwater cultural heritageof the state of Bahia, particularly of Baa de Todos os Santos region, andtherefore of the project that is rising from all those synergies,

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Supportingthe aims of new perspectives for nautical and UCH protection,research and valorization in Brazil by strengthening the cooperationbetween countries, and the creation of the ARCHEMAR Itaparica Project inthe frame of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the FederalUniversity of Bahia, dedicated to the archaeology and ethnography of the

sea, and within the same kind of spirit proposed in the 1980s by theARCHENAVE project in Bahia

Congratulates the signature for that purpose of a formal agreementbetween the Prefeituraof Itaparica and these two cultural and academicentities, celebrated at the closing of the Symposium,

Notesthe increasing number of countries recognizing the long term social,economic and cultural benefits to be gained through ratification of theUNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater CulturalHeritage, recommends its ratification by the Federal Republic of Brazil.

Encouragesall those entities, personalities and the people of the state ofBahia, but also all Brazilians, to support the ratification of the UNESCOConvention, aware of the fact that this paradigmatic non-renewableresource must be managed for the benefit of their country, of their peopleand of Humanity, as any other testimony of the human past, independentlyof its physical environment.

Recommends that, during that process of decision making regarding theConvention, Brazil takes all efforts to implement the Annex of thisConvention to the benefit of Brazilian underwater cultural heritage and its

sustainable management for future generations.

Stressesthat ICUCH/ICOMOS is always available to the Brazilianauthorities to provide advice in matters of policy or practice related to theunderwater cultural heritage.

Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil, Oct 28th 2007