In July lawyers for dealers, auction houses and museums tried to persuade the State Department's culturalproperty advisory committee not to recommend renewing the emergency import restrictions on Byzantine ethnological material from Cyprus for another three years.
Plato was in vogue then, and Plato believed in central planning by intellectuals in the context of communal property, centralized state education, state centralized cultural offerings and communal family structure.
Per Article 7 (b) (ii) of the Convention, States Parties undertake, at the request of the State Party "of origin", to take appropriate steps to recover and return any such culturalproperty imported after the entry into force of this Convention in both States concerned, provided, however, that the requesting State shall pay just compensation to an innocent purchaser or to a person who has valid title to that property.