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Red List of Iraqi Antiquities Stolen internationally
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Posted 27/08/2014 01:56 PM
Within the framework of the emergency plan approved by UNESCO following the exposure of many archaeological sites, heritage and religious shrines in Mosul and Salahuddin to destroy smuggling and sabotage of the effects, by Daash
The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Iraqi brigade Sumaisem for the formation of an emergency committee, especially to protect those sites.
The general director of the Department of Relations and Media in the Ministry Qasim Taher Sudanese in a press statement that "the Commission will adopt the Red List of Iraqi Antiquities stolen and uncles on all States to follow these effects, as has been recovered many relics, as well as follow-up to the emergency plan emanating from UNESCO for the protection of sites archaeological and heritage and cultural property of sabotage attacks and smuggling operations carried out by terrorist gangs Daash in the provinces that suffered the invasion and saw the terrorist military operations. "
He added that "the Committee headed by the Director General of the Department of public museums and includes a number of expert archaeologists and representatives of the Ministries of Culture and Interior discussed the draft of the emergency plan, and discussed the necessary adjustments to be taken into account when approving the plan definitively by UNESCO, in addition to monitoring archaeological sites, particularly in the province of Nineveh 1791, which includes archaeological sites and 250 heritage sites and a large number of cultural property, "noting that" the Commission will provide the leadership of the Air Force maps of sites of archaeological and heritage in the provinces where military operations. "
It is noteworthy that a delegation from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities participated in the UNESCO conference last held in the French capital Paris to discuss the mechanics of maintaining Iraqi antiquities, and called for the inclusion of the International Convention of 1970 a provision to protect Iraqi antiquities from acts of vandalism, theft and looting, which exposed him by aggregates The effects of terrorist mafias local, regional and international.
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