Turkey, Yemen Request Restrictions on Imports of Archaeological and Ethnological Goods

The State Department received requests from Turkey and Yemen in September under a UNESCO agreement to restrict U.S. imports of archaeological and ethnological materials representing the two countries' cultural patrimony, it said. Turkey and Yemen filed the requests under Article 9 of the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.