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Created by UNESCO in 1992, the Memory of the World Programme, aims to prevent the irrevocable loss of documentary heritage – documents or collections of documents of significant and enduring value, whether on paper, audiovisual, digital or any other support. The programme aims to safeguard this heritage and make it more accessible to the general public. Inscriptions on the Memory of the World International Register had to be suspended in 2017 due to disagreements between States over the nomination process. An important collective effort has enabled the procedure to be redesigned and nominations were re-launched in 2021. On 24 May 2023, they resulted in the unanimous decision of the 216^th session of UNESCO's Executive Board to inscribe 64 new documentary collections, bringing the total number of listed collections to 494. New nominations of documentary heritage submitted by IICAS’s Member States are following: "Flower Book" of Khurshidbanu Natavan – Album of Illustrated Verses (Azerbaijan), Mawlana’s Kulliyat - The Complete Works of Mawlana (Bulgaria, Germany, Iran, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan), The Four Treatises of Tibetan Medicine (China), Archives and Manuscripts of Macau Kong Tac Lam Temple (China), Documents on Iran’s International Relations Under the Qajar Rule: 1807-1925 (Iran), Documents of the Shaykh Safī-al-Dīn Ardabīlī Shrine: 952-1926 (Iran), Manuscript of the Kyrgyz epic "Manas" by the narrator Sagymbay Orozbakov (Kyrgyzstan), Stone Inscriptions of Tsogtu Khung-Taiji, Prince of Khalkha (Mongolia), Archives of the April 19 Revolution (Republic of Korea), Archives of the Donghak Peasant Revolution (Republic of Korea), Yildiz Palace Photography Collection (Türkiye), The Collection of Kâtip Çelebi: Cihânnümâ and Kashf al-Zunun (Türkiye), The Qushbegi Chancellery of the Bukhara Emirate (Uzbekistan).

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