President Zurabishvili floats putting Georgian tolerance on UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list
President said tolerance is what the world is most deprived of and Georgia should play the part of a role model. Photo: Badri Vadachkoria.
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has proposed putting Georgian tolerance on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list at a meeting with UNESCO Secretary General Audrey Azoulay yesterday.
President Zurabishvili stated that the Georgian nation’s identity is shown in tolerance as the Georgian people have lived in peace with those of different origins and confessions for centuries.
Salome Zurabishvili at a meeting with UNESCO Secretary General Audrey Azouley. Photo: President's press office
The Georgian president said tolerance is what the world is most deprived of and Georgia should play the part of a role model in this respect.
The conversation with Azoulay also referred to deepening cooperation in education, science and culture fields, protection of cultural monuments in occupied territories and the importance and availability of women’s and girl’s education.
Georgia’s cultural heritage could soon be represented in the UNESCO World Heritage list with an expanded roster of monuments, as the country’s agencies are working to nominate five sites for the directory.
The art of traditional Georgian wrestling, a major element of the country’s national identity and history, has been inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list by a decision of the international body’s committee in Port Louis, Mauritius.
Georgia has always been a place of tolerance in the Caucasus, says the Prime Minister as the country celebrates the International Day for Tolerance in central Tbilisi today.
Georgia is petitioning for Georgian wheat to be put on the UNESCO Safeguarding – Intangible Heritage List. The application was signed at the Education Ministry today.