(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Kuwait lawmaker Khalil Abdullah has called for more efforts and effective and pre-emptive legal measures to safeguard human tangible and intangible heritage, particularly in conflict zones.
Heritage is a symbol of the country and a priceless and vivid record of its national and cultural identity, so it deserves a special protection against natural and man-made disasters, MP Abdullah said in a speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)'s second permanent committee for sustainable development, finance and trade meeting, held Monday.
In addition to the natural disasters, the growing attacks on heritage sites by extremist groups require relentless and coordinated efforts from the whole world to secure the human heritage, he underlined.
MP Abdullah noted that lawmakers have a significant role to play in this regard through endorsing the international conventions for protecting human heritage against different kinds of dangers and to work out laws to consider any assault on heritage a war crime.
He also shed lights on Kuwaiti government efforts to preserve national heritage and to back the international action to protect world heritage.
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