Ms Bokova further asked Mr Ban to consider recommending that the Security Council adopt a resolution instituting a temporary ban on the trade or transfer of Haitian cultural property.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

UNESCO: Ratified Conventions

In 1970, the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property was adopted to combat plundering and trafficking of such property.

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That's because the object was removed from Anatolia long before UNESCO's 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, he said.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

It is in this context, and to address such situations, the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property was created in 1970.

UNESCO: Illicit Traffic

The Director-General has contacted national authorities in countries sharing borders with Mali to remind them of their obligations under the provisions of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The workshop stressed the importance of Database's objective as an instrument to protect cultural heritage, by fighting against looting, theft, illegal export and import in the light of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and of the UNESCO Convention of 2001 on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Another activity aimed at protecting monumental cultural heritage was the Campaign for safeguarding Venice, launched in 1962, or the adoption on 19 November 1968 by the General Conference of the Recommendation concerning the Preservation of Cultural Property Endangered by Public or Private Works, followed in 1970 by the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage