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U.S. Agreements and Actions to Combat Smuggling of Cultural Property

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John R. Crook
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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 106 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 386 - 388
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, Nov. 14, 1970, 823 UNTS 231, 10 ILM 289 (1971), available at http://portaI.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URLJD=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.

2 See Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 100 AJIL 455, 460 (2006)Google Scholar.

3 U.S. Dep’t of State, International Cultural Property Protection, at http://exchanges.state.gov/heritage/culprop.html.

4 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2011/2115, Extension of Bilateral Agreement to Continue Import Restrictions on Archaeological and Ethnological Material (Dec. 12, 2011), at http://www.state.gOv/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/178618.htm.

5 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2011/2068, The United States and Greece Finalize Agreement to Protect the Archaeological and Byzantine Heritage of Greece Through the 15th Century A.D. (Dec. 6, 2011), at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/178328.htm.

6 Kate Taylor, 4 Charged in Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2011, at C20.

7 U.S. Atty’s Office (E.D. N.Y.) Press Release, Dealers and Collector Charged with Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities: Set of Sarcophagi over 2,000 Years Old and Other Egyptian Antiquities Recovered (July 14, 2011), at http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2011/201ljull4.html.

8 ld. (footnotes omitted).