/ world today news/ Many of the museum exhibits were taken from Iraq and Syria on someone’s orders or ended up on the black market, Russia’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO Eleonora Mitrofanova said on Tuesday (April 5) during a video conference between Moscow and Paris. TASS.
“More than 14,000 exhibits have disappeared from Iraqi museums that were looted during hostilities,” Mitrofanova said, adding that “11,000 exhibits illegally entered the United States. When I asked the US representative what would happen to them, he was silent.”
Many museum exhibits, according to the Russian representative to UNESCO, “were seized from there on someone’s orders.” “This matter should be discussed by the competent authorities,” she said. “UNESCO will not raise the issue of criminal acquisition because this issue affects each country individually.”
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