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UNESCO supports Sri Lankan resolution on misuse of religious symbols

A draft resolution submitted by Minister Mangala Samaraweera to the executive board of the UNESCO at its 170th session in Paris on misuse of religious symbols, images and expressions was recently taken up for discussion and adopted unanimously by a record number of countries voting in favour, the Ministry of Ports and Aviation said yesterday.

Ananda Gunasekara, Sri Lanka's ambassador in France and permanent delegate to the UNESCO who introduced the motion on behalf of the whole group presented in detail the adverse effects of using religious symbols by certain individuals or marketing organizations through sheer lack of awareness.

This move proposed by Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the inaugural session on October 4, 2004 will ready UNESCO into a playing a more pro-active role in safeguarding the sensitivities of peoples of varied cultural or religious groups thereby opening new avenues for inter communal harmony.

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