 UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly approved a Pakistan-sponsored resolution on Sunday calling on governments to promote religious and cultural understanding, harmony and cooperation.
| Yep. That oughta take care of that little problem... |
The text, introduced by Pakistanâs delegate Riaz Khokhar, was adopted by consensus. The resolution acknowledges the âvaluable contributionâ of various initiatives - including Pakistanâs enlightened moderation - as a strategy to promote peace and harmony. By its terms, the 191-member Assembly expressed alarm that serious instances of intolerance and discrimination on grounds of religion or belief, including acts of violence, intimidation and coercion motivated by religious intolerance, are on the increase worldwide and threaten the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
| Most of them, coincidentally, occur on Islam's bloody border. But we won't go into that... |
In that connection, the Assembly encouraged governments to promote, including through education as well as the development of progressive curricula and text books, understanding, tolerance and friendship among human beings in all their diversity of religion, belief, culture and language. |