State to Sign MOU Restricting Cultural Property Imports From Egypt
Secretary of State John Kerry and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry are set to sign a memorandum of understanding on cultural property protection at on Nov. 30 at the State Department, State said (here). The U.S. will restrict imports of…
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archaeological material “representing Egypt’s cultural heritage” dating from 5200 B.C. to A.D. 1517, in order to reduce incentives for pillage and trafficking. State Department officials negotiated the agreement under the U.S. law implementing the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, State said. The MOU will become the 16th active U.S. bilateral agreement imposing import restrictions on cultural property, and is the first such accord signed by the U.S. and a nation in the Middle East and North Africa region, State said.