Longstanding calls for the UK Government to sign up to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Culture Heritage have received backing from Scottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron.
The Highlands and Islands MSP, who also sits as vice convenor of the cross party group on Gaelic, made the call on the same day that Bòrd na Gàidhlig hosted an event in the Scottish Parliament to mark 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages.
In March 2018, the Scottish Parliament unanimously agreed to the motion that ‘the parliament notes the terms and purposes of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Culture Heritage, which was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, and calls on the UK Government to ratify it’.