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HAMPI: About 150 Indian artefacts would be returned to the country by the United States in the next six months, according to a senior official.
Addressing a press briefing ahead of the third G20 Culture Working Group meeting on July 9, Secretary in the Culture Ministry Govind Mohan said India has discussed the 1970 convention extensively among all the countries.
“We are trying to develop a broad consensus that all these G20 countries should at least become signatories to the convention and certainly, India would be a big gainer from this process,” he said.
The 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property urges the parties to take measures to prohibit and prevent the illicit trafficking of cultural property.
