Baghdad, Iraq--received the Ambassador in Washington, lokman Feili a delegation of FBI international operations department and received them four relics is a cylindrical seals found recently.
According to a Foreign Ministry statement, the delivery ceremony was held at the Iraqi Embassy and the Ambassador during the meeting thanked the FBI, at the same time praising their efforts in restoring historic artifacts that are part of the history of Iraq and the history of mankind. "
He noted that "this cooperation represents the most important aspects of the mutual cooperation between Iraq and the United States."
For their part, the members of the delegation thanked the efforts of the Embassy, stressing the importance of the return of looted Iraqi artifacts to her mother and continued cooperation and communication between the two parties for the common good, "the statement said.
The Iraq witnessed widespread looting to stir after 2003 as the United States and its troops entered Iraq, Iraqi and archive many documents, including the Jewish archive, home, maintenance, but not yet returned to Iraq despite repeated claims by the Iraqi Government.
A delegation from the parliamentary legal Committee, headed by MP Khalid shawani last month visited Maryland in the United States and met with Senator/askale, Member of the Senate of the State, the delegation also inspected the u.s. National Archive Center, and met with officials of the Iraqi Jewish archive, see the details of the work of the Centre and archive from moved from Baghdad and rehabilitation.
Recently demanded a Jewish US Senator, US State Department not to return Jewish archives to Iraq, and that Iraq "no Jews to ensure the archive with their fingertips.
The Jewish in America, recently called on the u.s. Government not to return the Iraqi Jewish archive, collectibles, and the diaspora are the right to possession of the archive, while the Iraqi Government plundered the archive of the Jewish community in Iraq.
He found the Jewish archive files and documents by the army in May 2003 in the crypt one of the headquarters of the security services of Saddam Hussein, which was bombed and waterlogged.
The Ministry of tourism and antiquities, last March, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to approach the United States with official wrote to the Iraqi Jewish archive fully under an agreement between the two parties signed in 2005 ended up 1.
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