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On April 16, 2014, the Department of State published in the Federal Register a notice of receipt of cultural property request from the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt [Public Notice 8696 ]. Egypt, concerned that its cultural heritage is in jeopardy from pillage, made a request to the Government of the United States under Article 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The United States Department of State received this request in April 2014. Egypt’s request seeks US import restrictions on archaeological and ethnological material from Egypt representing its prehistoric through Ottoman heritage.
The specific contents of this request are treated as confidential government-to-government information, consistent with applicable US law. Information about US implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention can be found at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Cultural heritage Website. A public summary of Egypt’s request will be posted on that Web site. See also: Notice of Meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee [Public Notice 8697; Docket No. DOS–2014–0008] to begin to review of Egypt’s request, above, and a Nicaraguan request to extend the existing Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material from the Pre-Hispanic Cultures of the Republic of Nicaragua. Portions of this meeting will be closed to the public, as discussed in the notice. |
