Why is the Shwedagon Pagoda not a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

[Civciv5]

Fool, the Eiffel Tower was a ripoff of the Seattle Space Needle.

The Eiffel Tower was built before the Space Needle!

 

[aronnax]

The Eiffel Tower was built before the Space Needle!

Swing and a miss!

I wonder why such historical, cultural or natural sites take such a long time to be processed and accepted as UNESCO Heritage site. There are applications from 1999.

 

[Tee Kay]

Because they're not Italians.

 

[carmen510]

Either Myanmar hasn't put the Shwedagon Pagoda on its Tentative List (inventory of sites that is taken by the national government), Myanmar hasn't bothered to create a Tentative List, the United Nations is just taking its sweet time/spending money for experts to study the site to ensure that it meets selection criteria, or (it's possible) Myanmar has not provided sufficient upkeep for the site.