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United States and Yemen Sign Cultural Property Agreement [ https://www.state.gov/united-states-and-yemen-sign-cultural-property-agreement/ ] 09/01/2023 11:21 AM EDT
Office of the Spokesperson
On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Lee Satterfield and Ambassador of Yemen to the United States Mohammed Al-Hadhrami, accompanied by the Department’s Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking, signed a bilateral cultural property agreement that renews and extends protections for Yemeni cultural property which were put in place in 2020 on an emergency basis.
The United States has been unwavering in its commitment to protect and preserve cultural heritage around the world and to restrict trafficking in cultural property, which is often used to fund terrorist and criminal networks.  The U.S.-Yemen cultural property agreement was negotiated by the State Department under the U.S. law implementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.  With this agreement, Yemen joins 25 existing U.S. bilateral cultural property agreement partners.  In addition, U.S. emergency import restrictions remain in place on cultural property from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
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