Two Kazakh nominations—the Issyk inscription and the Collection of Printed Works by Mashkhur Zhusup Kopeev—have been added for the first time to UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific regional Memory of the World register. The decision was made on November 5, 2026, at the register’s 11th meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The Issyk inscription is on a silver bowl found in the Issyk burial mound. The second nomination covers a collection of printed works by Mashkhur Zhusup Kopeev.
More than 100 delegates from 23 Asia-Pacific countries took part in the meeting. They reviewed participating countries’ reports on the programme’s development and approved 21 documentary heritage nominations.
