UNESCO holds protest exhibit over destruction of Buddhas

PARIS, France - Koichi Matsuura, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), makes a speech June 5 opening an art exhibition at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris organized to protest the Taliban's destruction of Buddhist monumental sculptures in Afghanistan. Standing at left is Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama, who serves as UNESCO's goodwill ambassador.

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