It had called on the international community to bring pressure to bear on Israel to protect all Muslim and Christian and holy sites and to put an end, once and for all, to attempts to desecrate such sites.

I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami, and I was standing on the beaches and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes, a 30 foot wave could rise up and desecrate a people, a population and lives.

3. Expresses concern at recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and urges States in this regard to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, No. 17512.