Agreements with the USA to preserve ancient artefacts

Two deals on cultural cooperation in Cambodia were signed yesterday between the United States embassy and the Culture and Fine Arts Ministry. In a press release, the US embassy said that the first MoU extended an agreement between the two governments concerning the “Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categorised Archaeological Material of Cambodia” for an additional five years.

“The MoU is intended to reduce the incentive for pillaging irreplaceable archaeological material representing Cambodia’s rich cultural heritages,” the embassy said, noting that the first agreement was signed in 2003 and extended in 2008 and 2013. Cambodia will continue its best effort to maintain and share with the US information about unauthorised excavations, thefts of cultural property, trafficking of cultural property and other threats that jeopardise Cambodia’s cultural patrimony, it added.

The second agreement is the Award Agreements of the approved US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2018 by the US State Department, through the embassy, to support the National Authority for Preah Vihear Conservation Project. The agreement awarded Cambodia $200,000 for “the Conservation of the Northern Ancient Staircase at the 11th-Century Temple of Preah Vihear”.

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