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Today, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey David Satterfield and Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Ersoy signed a bilateral Memorandum...

The U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco David T. Fischer and Morocco’s Minister of Culture Othmane El Ferdaous signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding that protects Moroccan cultural property. This agreement is an example of the United States’ enduring work with Morocco to combat cultural property trafficking and to preserve heritage items by allowing the U.S. to establish import restrictions on certain categories of Morocco’s cultural property.  The agreement also gives U.S. law enforcement the ability to repatriate trafficked cultural objects back to Morocco whil...

Today, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco David T. Fischer and Morocco’s Minister of Culture Othmane El Ferdaous signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding that protects Moroccan cultural property. This agreement is an?example of the United States’ enduring work with Morocco to combat cultural property trafficking and?to?preserve heritage?items by allowing the U.S. to establish import restrictions on certain categories of Morocco’s cultural property.  The agreement also gives U.S. law enforcement the ability to repatriate trafficked cultural objects back to Morocco while fos...

Collage by 112 Ukraine The Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, says he will transfer to Ukraine a centuries-old Orthodox icon, which had earlier been handed as a gift to Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on condition that Kyiv proves it has actually been searching for it earlier. That's according to the Ukrainian media outlet European Pravda, referring to Radio Slobodna Evropa on January 15. In particular, Dodik said he had not heard back from the Ukrainian side as to whether they were searching for the icon, and no data related to it was allegedly pr...

Unesco using 'bogus' figures to inflate the cost of stolen art to $10bn, say dealers After drugs and arms, art makes up the world’s third largest black market 27 December 2020 • 9:30pm Unesco was forced to pull images from an advertising campaign, after they were accused of making it appear that the items were stolen, when in fact they are legitimately held by the Metropolitan museum. The figures are shocking - the trade in illegal art is worth $10billion and after drugs and arms it makes up the world’s third largest black market. But the problem with claims by Unesco, art dealers say, ...