VIDEO: Europe should not judge Sri Lanka on human rights: Miss Earth – Air 2013
August 2, 2014 01:19 pm
Katia Wagner, the title holder of Miss Earth – Air 2013, says that European nations should not judge Sri Lanka over its human rights situation and that she did not see “anything bad” during her visit to the Island nation.
Asked about her opinion on the constant criticism of Sri Lanka’s human rights situation by European and Western nations, Wagner said: “I have to tell the Europeans that it’s not us to judge Asian countries and it’s not us to judge about human rights in Sri Lanka.”
“Everyone has its own culture and probably Europeans have their own culture that maybe Sri Lankans don’t understand,” she told Ada Derana, in an interview.
The beauty queen said she thinks Sri Lanka is a very nice country with very nice people and that she “didn’t see anything bad here in Sri Lanka.”
Miss Wagner stated that she will have a bond with Sri Lanka forever.
Wagner, here on a special invitation by TV Derana, will crown the next Derana Veet Miss Sri Lanka for the Miss Earth 2014 beauty pageant, scheduled to be held on the 02nd of August at CITRUS, Waskaduwa.
25 year old Katia Wagner represented Austria at the Miss Earth 2013 pageant which was held in the in Philippines last year. At the final coronation, she was awarded the title Miss Earth Air 2013, given to the first runner-up at the pageant.
The radiant and humble beauty queen from Austria thus made her country proud by the achievement in one of the most prestigoius pageants of the world last year.
The multi-talented Katia is fluent in German, English, French, Russian, and Bahasa Indonesia and has also studied Latin. She is accompanied by Ms. Peachy O Veneracion who is the Vice president & project director of Miss Earth Organization.
Asked about her opinion on the constant criticism of Sri Lanka’s human rights situation by European and Western nations, Wagner said: “I have to tell the Europeans that it’s not us to judge Asian countries and it’s not us to judge about human rights in Sri Lanka.”
“Everyone has its own culture and probably Europeans have their own culture that maybe Sri Lankans don’t understand,” she told Ada Derana, in an interview.
The beauty queen said she thinks Sri Lanka is a very nice country with very nice people and that she “didn’t see anything bad here in Sri Lanka.”
Miss Wagner stated that she will have a bond with Sri Lanka forever.
Wagner, here on a special invitation by TV Derana, will crown the next Derana Veet Miss Sri Lanka for the Miss Earth 2014 beauty pageant, scheduled to be held on the 02nd of August at CITRUS, Waskaduwa.
25 year old Katia Wagner represented Austria at the Miss Earth 2013 pageant which was held in the in Philippines last year. At the final coronation, she was awarded the title Miss Earth Air 2013, given to the first runner-up at the pageant.
The radiant and humble beauty queen from Austria thus made her country proud by the achievement in one of the most prestigoius pageants of the world last year.
The multi-talented Katia is fluent in German, English, French, Russian, and Bahasa Indonesia and has also studied Latin. She is accompanied by Ms. Peachy O Veneracion who is the Vice president & project director of Miss Earth Organization.
