The Committee,

1. Having examined document LHE/24/19.COM/6.a,
2. Recalling Chapter V of the Operational Directives and its Decisions 6.COM 8.15, 11.COM 9.b.5 and 15.COM 7.6,
3. Expresses its appreciation to Mongolia for submitting, on time, its third report on the status of the element ‘Folk long song performance technique of Limbe performances – circular breathing’, inscribed in 2011 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding;
4. Takes note of the efforts undertaken by the State Party to safeguard the element, in particular by continuing documentation, enhancing training and promoting the element through education, increasing the number of its practitioners and apprentices, improving its viability and raising awareness of the element among the general public, including through the ‘Nomadic Mongolia’ festival, which also features other inscribed elements and promotes the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage;
5. Invites the State Party to continue its efforts to support the practitioners of the element and to improve their social protection, to expand the transmission of the element within the country, to enhance gender balance in its practice, to advance its integration in education, and to attract younger generations to its practice;
6. Notes also that International Assistance was provided in 2019 to safeguard the element, and encourages the State Party to continue its fundraising efforts and to develop synergies among various funding sources, and further invites the State Party to provide information on the use of funds and respective funding sources for each safeguarding activity and on available funding sources for the updated safeguarding plan in its next report;
7. Also takes note of the goal stated in the updated safeguarding plan to transfer the element from the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.