Major tasks of the Euro-Asia regional section of OWHC are:

• Combining of the efforts for preservation and propaganda of the heritage of Euro-Asia cities;
• Organization of the stable system of experience and information exchange for preservation of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage;
• establishment and strengthening of the close cooperation with other regional sections of OWHC, international organizations which pursue the objects similar to the aims of OWHC;
• attraction of new cities into the Euro-Asia regional section of OWHC;
• insertion of the cities which have the sites of cultural heritage into the waiting list of UNESCO for insertion in the World Heritage List;
• attraction of the youth to the work for preservation of the heritage of Euro-Asia cities.

Main lines of the Euro-Asia regional section of Organization of the World Heritage Cities activity

Development of the information networks on Euro-Asia heritage.
      Creation of the information networks on the heritage of the Euro-Asia cities will mainly be based on the existing and successfully developing system of the Organization of World Heritage Cities.
      At present, Euro-Asia section has its own page on web site of OWHC (in English, French and Spain languages) and its part on the site of Euro-Asia regional section of the World Organization "United Cities and Local Governments".
      Main object of the Euro-Asia section information systems development is creation of the platform for cooperation and exchange of specialists, students, interested people from all over the world between regional section and General Secretariat, and between regional section and cities of the world heritage in other parts of the world as well.
      Information network plays the important role in unification of the World Heritage cities of Euro-Asia, all the bodies that are responsible for preservation of the heritage, specialists and students. Euro-Asia section covers the cities, which have mighty base and opportunity for preservation and promotion of its heritage, and the cities, which have the lesser opportunities for achievement of these purposes. In addition, for many of them the information network of the Euro-Asia section is a good opportunity to do advertising.

Creation of the stable system of experience exchange in the field of preservation and promotion of the world heritage.
       At organization of this work regional secretariat acts in the following lines:         

• Use of the site and database of the department about the cities, legislative acts, specialists.
• Issue of the qualitative continuing edition - bulletin "Cities of Euro-Asia".
• Organization of the seminars, conferences, both virtual and which are based on the animated discussion of the cities' representatives and specialists; participation in the seminars and conferences organized by the General secretariat, other regional sections.
• Conclusion of the agreements on cooperation with the organizations, both international and regional, national, governmental and private,  activity of which is to preserve and promote of the heritage sites.

Activity on tourism development.
      Unfortunately, having on its territory the great quantity of the sites which are the property and wealth of the whole mankind, Euro-Asia is sufficiently badly (faintly) developed related to the cultural tourism. First it concerns the countries of the former Soviet Union and links with the carrying out of the policy of "iron curtain" during 70 years. At present we are at the beginning of the development of such very important on the up-to-date stage of the mankind existing
Today we are at the beginning of development of this very important for nowadays kind of activity in the postsoviet space.
     In the number of countries in the world, income from tourism draws up the sufficient part of the budget. Besides, incomes from tourism are the most dependable and serious source of finance of preservation and promotion of the world heritage sites. At present, many states squander certain resources for preservation their heritage from other distinct from tourism sources of income. However, often these injections are not dependable and in the whole depend on the attitude of the authorities on a local and national level to the cultural heritage of the cities.
    First in the development of the tourism, we see the stable source of financial means for preservation of the world heritage sites, for promotion of the ideas of heritage preservation among the population. This in its turn will help the cities and states in solution of employment questions, opening of their regions for world, education of youth in the spirit of careful attitude to the heritage .

     In this line, we intend to organize our work on the base of the following:

• Measures on inclusion of the heritage sites of the Euro-Asia cities into the world travel networks;
• Use of  Euro-Asia section site, Organization of world heritage site, this site, other information networks;
• Elaboration of the conception of the tourism development in the Euro-Asia cities;
• Achievement of an agreement with the World tourism organization on holding consultations for purposes of active tourism development in some regions of Euro-Asia 
• Exchange of the experience on realization of these tends with more successful cities of the Organization of world heritage cities. Organization of visiting this cities by the tourism sphere specialists.
• Holding special seminars dedicated to the development of the cultural tourism in the cities of world heritage;
• Preparation of the offers about the changing of legislative acts related to the heritage preservation on the local and national levels.

Attraction of the youth to the heritage preservation activity.
      Last years UNESCO pays great attention to the promotion of the heritage preservation ideas among the broad masses and especially among the youth. Namely youth can preserve the heritage sites of the cities from irrevocable loss.  
      Euro-Asia section will be organizing this activity on the base of the General secretariat projects taking into account the peculiarity of the Euro-Asia section. 
      Projects on attraction of the youth will be carried out in two main age groups:
    - children from 12 to 17 years old
    - students and pupils age from 18 to 20 years old
      Projects suppose the use of internet, making of the close contacts between the schools of the certain cities, holding the competitions in the universities of the cities.

Edition of the bulletin "Cities of Euro-Asia".
    Publication of the own body has a crucial importance for Euro-Asia section. This is necessary for consolidation of the efforts of the cities in achievement of their purposes. First, it is very important in information mean to know where what happens and what events are hold. Edition of this bulletin has the significance for exchange of the experience between the specialists as well.
    We think that bulletin will publish in English and Russian languages and become continuing edition.
     As main resources of the information will serve the contact names on the activity of OWHC from different cities of World heritage of Euro-Asia. In several cities the responsible workers have already appointed, in others it will be done.

Edition of the book "World Heritage of the Euro-Asia cities"
    We think of a presentational edition,    where it will be the exhaustive information about the world heritage cites of the Euro-Asia with the colorful photos and illustrations. In case of the projects realization it will be the first such edition in the history of Euro-Asia continent. Now it has begun the collection of information for the book.

Attraction of new members in Euro-Asia regional section.
    New statute lets to include in OWHC the cities which on their territory have the sites of world heritage both included in the UNESCO list and unrecognized by this international organization.
     The city of Derbent with the 5 thousand year history has recently become the city of World Heritage. But earlier we had the contacts in the frame of the project "Great Volga route". They were continued, General secretariat has also established contacts with Derbent and information about the city is on the site of OWHC.
We actively work in the tends of attraction of new members. We proceed from the principle that any heritage of any city is valuable.  The question is, what the city's attitude towards its heritage is, what it is doing to preserve it. That is why we are open for cooperation with all the cities, which value their cultural diversity. They can enter the OWHC as the members-observers and use all the system of opportunities that the Organization offers to its members.
      Declaration passed in October 2003 at the General conference of UNESCO about security of oral and intangible heritage of mankind lead the preservation of an intangible heritage to the new level. First two proclamation made by UNESCO showed in all the world 47 masterpieces of intangible heritage of mankind. 22 masterpieces, i.e. almost half of them, are on the territory of Euro-Asia.
      At the administration council of OWHC in Cordova city in February 2004 the mayor of Kazan Mr. Kamil Iskhakov advanced the initiative to give the opportunity to the territories and cities where there are the masterpieces of intangible heritage to enter the OWHC.

   Activity on attraction of new members will be conducted according three categories:

• cities which have the sites included in the UNESCO list but that are not the members of OWHC;
• cities with the rich architectural and cultural heritage that are out the UNESCO list;
• cities and territories with oral and intangible heritage included in the List of masterpieces of intangible heritage of mankind.