Alliance Cultural Protection Agency

The Alliance Cultural Protection Agency is a specialized organisation of the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sport (MCAS). Its purpose is to list specific places (such as a forest, mountain, lake, island, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed as of special cultural or physical significance.

The programme catalogues, names and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity. As of 2013, three sites are listed, all of them cultural. ACPA references each heritage site with an identification code. While each heritage site remains part of the legal territory of the state wherein the site is located, ACPA considers it in the interest of the international community to preserve each site.

Identification code
The identification code is unique for every site which is accepted into the Alliance Cultural Protection Agency (ACPA). The system used shows sites by the a number between 0001 and 1000. It is then followed by the continental code.There is a two letter sequence for every continental region in the Alliance of Independent Nations. They are as follows; Americas (AM), Europe (EU), Africa (AF), Asia (AS), Atlantic (AT), Oceania (OC) The code also includes categorical information regard the type of site. The type of site is expressed by either C, N or CN representing cultural, natural or mixed, respectively.