In July lawyers for dealers, auction houses and museums tried to persuade the State Department's cultural property advisory committee not to recommend renewing the emergency import restrictions on Byzantine ethnological material from Cyprus for another three years.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Plato was in vogue then, and Plato believed in central planning by intellectuals in the context of communal property, centralized state education, state centralized cultural offerings and communal family structure.

FORBES: How A Failed Commune Gave Us What Is Now Thanksgiving

Per Article 7 (b) (ii) of the Convention, States Parties undertake, at the request of the State Party "of origin", to take appropriate steps to recover and return any such cultural property imported after the entry into force of this Convention in both States concerned, provided, however, that the requesting State shall pay just compensation to an innocent purchaser or to a person who has valid title to that property.

UNESCO: Illicit Traffic

The Convention was adopted together with a Protocol in order to prevent the export of cultural property from occupied territory, requiring the return of such property to the territory of the State from which it was removed.

UNESCO: CYPRUS NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO - Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict