A U A Tuesday, 04 July 2023 11:55 PM
Today, Tuesday, the Embassy of Switzerland in Cairo considered that Switzerland’s handover of a piece of the statue of King Ramses II to the Embassy of Egypt in Bern confirms the joint commitment of both countries to combating illegal trafficking of cultural property on the basis of the bilateral agreement signed in 2011.
According to the press release issued by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and published by the embassy today, the Director of the Federal Office of Culture, Karen Bachmann, handed over an important artifact to the Egyptian Embassy in Bern, where the piece, which is part of a statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II, was confiscated in Geneva as part of It is a criminal procedure, and it is rejected in application of the law on the international transfer of cultural property.
The statement added that the stone statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II is part of a group statue where the king sits alongside various Egyptian deities.
The statement indicated that the piece was stolen between the late eighties and early nineties from the temple of Ramses II in Abydos in Egypt, and passed through different countries before arriving in Switzerland.
The statement emphasized that Switzerland and Egypt are parties to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Prohibition and Prevention of Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Bilateral on recovery and return of cultural property.
2023-07-04 20:55:00
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