At the meeting, registered in the 38th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), terrorism was denounced and it was expressed the leaders' determination to continue working to promote dialogue, education and safeguarding of cultural heritage in its diversity.
The general director of the international organization, Irina Bokova, said that extremists are afraid of history, cultural diversity and the freedom it represents.
Therefore were destroyed Palmyra, Mosul and Hatra. That is why journalists, members of religious communities and the human capacity to live are attacked, she said.
