VIENTIANE: Unesco has presented Laos’ Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism with a certificate designating the traditional naga weaving motif as a form of intangible cultural world heritage, after the UN agency officially inscribed the popular textile pattern on its World Heritage list last year. Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Suanesavanh Vignaket, and her officials travelled to Paris, France, where they received the certificate at the Unesco World Heritage Centre on Feb 28. The naga weaving motif was approved as a form of intangible cultural world heritage at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Botswana last December. In addition, Laos would be the first country in South-East Asia to have a transboundary world heritage site together with a neighbouring country. In December 2017, Unesco also inscribed the khaen music of the Lao people as a form of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
