Over 600 artefacts returned to Cambodia since 1996

More than 600 Khmer artefacts have been returned to the nation since 1996 through the generosity of other countries, memoranda of understandings and other types of bilateral cooperation. The artefacts are part of the haul of cultural treasure illegally removed from the Kingdom.

Long Ponnasiriwat, a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, told Khmer Times that countries that have returned artefacts to Cambodia include the United States, Japan, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and China.

He said: “Since 1996, more than 600 ancient Khmer sculptures have been returned to Cambodia through mechanisms of bilateral cooperation, government-to-government cooperation according to national and international legal standards, including through philanthropists.”

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