The World Heritage Committee,
a) Adequate legal and institutional framework set up in one year:
(i) Re-issuance of Cabinet Decree No.425 - 2006;
(ii) Government provision to GOPHCY in Sana'a and Zabid of adequate budget to stabilise the degradation of the World Heritage property;
(iii) Completion of heritage protection laws;
(iv)Completion of the draft Conservation Plan, with translation into Arabic. Provision of short version for wide dissemination;
b) Physical degradation stopped immediately and reversed within two years:
(i) Stopping of poor new construction and further degradation of protected heritage assets,
(ii) Approval of contractors and individual specialists for carrying out emergency conservation works,
(iii)Appropriate house improvement design - bathrooms and kitchens, infrastructure and air conditioning,
(iv)Good designs for new houses within Zabid,
(v)Starting demolition of the concrete walls on the streets and other public spaces and replacing with brick walls,
(vi) Planned, costed and programmed schedule of medium and long-term actions,.
(vii)Prescription rules and regulations to be followed by inhabitants and owners,
(viii)Adoption of Zabid Urban Development Plan,
Requests the World Heritage Centre to contact the German Development Agency to explain the outstanding universal value of the property and encourage the protection of these values in the urban development plan;
Calls upon the States Parties to the Convention, especially from the region, to consider extra-budgetary funding to implement urgent action to ensure retention of the outstanding universal value of the property;
Requests the State Party, in consultation with the World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS, to develop a draft Statement of Outstanding Universal Value including the conditions of integrity and authenticity, for examination by the Committee at its 32nd session in 2008;
Also requests the State Party, in consultation with the World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS, to develop a draft statement of the desired state of conservation for the property based on its Outstanding Universal Value;
Further requests the State Party to submit, by 1 February 2008, a progress report on the implementation of the above activities, for examination by the Committee at its 32nd session in 2008;
Decides to retain the Historic Town of Zabid (Yemen) on the List of World Heritage in Danger for a further two-year period, subject to regular reporting on the part of the State Party as to the progress in the implementation of the activities listed in paragraph 5 above. The State Party reports shall be reviewed by the Committee on a yearly basis. The Committee shall consider the possibility of eventual deletion of the property from the World Heritage List at its 33rd session in 2009.