Tourism generated by Syria's cultural patrimony can play a crucial role in the country's postwar economic recovery if managed properly.

WSJ: Saving Syria | by Christian C. Sahner

China is invoking a 1970 United Nations convention that protects nations small, weak or in conflict from having their cultural patrimony plundered by rich outsiders.

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In cases where cultural patrimony is in jeopardy from pillage, Article 9 provides a possibility for more specific undertakings such as a call for import and export controls.

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