A/HRC/31/21 issued a joint statement expressing their united voice against all forms of attack, terrorism and violence in the island, the region and the world at large. They also expressed their commitment to working together for human rights and peace in Cyprus. The religious leaders stressed that the dialogue they had experienced together had strengthened their conviction that there was no future without tolerance, mutual understanding, respect and peaceful coexistence.25 44. In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage pursued its surveys, designs, emergency measures and conservation works of cultural heritage sites on the whole island. In March 2015, former village residents attended the ceremonies to mark the completion of conservation works to the mosque in Evretou/Evretu, Paphos Hammam and Tserkezoi/Ҫerkez Mosque. On 4 June 2015, the completion ceremony of conservation works to the Church of Agios Afksentios in Komi Kebir/Büyükkonuk was also attended by the Bishop of Karpasias Christophoros and the Imam Fahretin Ogdo. On 2 July 2015, the Othello Tower/Citadel in Famagusta was reopened to the public with a theatre performance of William Shakespeare’s Othello, adapted and directed by a Turkish Cypriot director and featuring a bicommunal cast of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot actors. On 2 September 2015, UNDP announced the signature of new contracts for the preparation of designs for future emergency measures/heritage conservation projects concerning Archangelos Michael Church in Lefkonoiko/Geçiktale, St. Anne Church of Maronites, St. Mary Church of Armenians, St. Mary of Carmel and the Mescit of Tabakhane/Tanner’s Mosque (Jacobite Church). F. Freedom of opinion and expression 45. According to article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. 46. In its concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Cyprus, the Human Rights Committee expressed concern that the Law on the Procedure for the Standardization of Geographical Names of the Republic (L.71 (I)/2013, as amended), which criminalized the publication, inter alia, of material containing place names in the Republic that were different from those specified in official documents, appeared to be incompatible with the right to freedom of expression. The Committee recommended that Cyprus repeal that provision and review other provisions of the law to ensure that they served a legitimate public purpose, were necessary and proportionate to the purpose pursued and imposed the least restrictive measures possible for the achievement of its goals, as set out in the Committee’s general comment No. 34 (2011) on the freedoms of opinion and expression (see CCPR/C/CYP/CO/4, para. 21).26 25 26 12 See www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/Embassies/Nicosia/Current-affairs/News/Joint-statement-ofReligious-Leaders-of-Cyprus-sys/. According to article 6, paragraph 1, of the amended law L.71 (I)/2013, any person who publishes, imports, circulates, offers, distributes or sells in the Republic of Cyprus maps, books or other documents, conventionally or digitally printed, in which geographical names and toponyms of areas of the Republic are printed differently from those designated in accordance with the procedures provided for in the law or of those in the dictionary of toponyms commits an offence and, if convicted, is subject to imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding €50,000, or both penalties, and all related documents are liable to seizure and destruction.