Both the President and the Director-General highlighted the priority given to the global fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property, including illicit archaeological excavations, an issue that is especially important to the people of Mexico.
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The main objective was to strengthen the fight against illicit trafficking in Cultural Property in the Caribbean.
Mali and its neighbouring countries are bound by the Convention, the only international instrument focused exclusively on the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property.
This three-year project aims to improve the capacities to combat the illicit trafficking of cultural property in Mongolia through the enhancement of operational capacity-building actions and awareness-raising activities.
The recommendations will be used as a basis for guidelines to be published in the periodical of the UNESCO Havana Office 'Culture and Development', in a special issue devoted to the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property.
Those recommendations will also be used as a basis for guidelines to be published in the periodical of the UNESCO Havana Office 'Culture and Development', in a special issue devoted to the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property.
These organizations and experts work closely with UNESCO in the domain of cultural heritage and earlier attended the opening day of a conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of UNESCO's Convention for the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property.
It concluded with the commitment from the 25 participants from 14 countries in the region to take concrete actions at legal and operational levels to improve their capacity to fight illicit trafficking in cultural property and to strengthen international cooperation.
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Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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