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To: Fifth Business
And just out of curiosity, how do you feel about the repatriation of any Iraqis artifacts acquired by non-Iraqis during Saddamn's regime?
47 posted on 04/19/2003 9:01:36 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: mewzilla
And just out of curiosity, how do you feel about the repatriation of any Iraqis artifacts acquired by non-Iraqis during Saddamn's regime?

It's the right thing to do. The 1970 UNESCO resolutions on cultural property prevent museums from holding on to anything removed from Iraq post 1960s. But private collectors ignore those resolutions.

51 posted on 04/19/2003 9:09:04 AM PDT by Fifth Business
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