Scotland’s Support for the (UNESCO) Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

As an amendment to motion S5M-11347 in the name of Fiona Hyslop (Scotland’s Support for the (UNESCO) Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage), leave out from ", and calls" to end and insert "; notes the UK Government’s position that it is necessary to carefully prioritise resources towards those conventions that will have the most impact on the safeguarding of heritage, such as the recent ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property; understands the importance that oral traditions, social practices and festive events have to Scotland and the wider UK’s cultural fabric, and joins the UK Government’s continuing calls to encourage communities to celebrate such practices and to pass them on to future generations for them to do the same, and believes that the UK Government should, in due course, ratify the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage."