US to return more looted artefacts to Cambodia

A collection of looted artifacts returned by the United States to Cambodia and put on display at the National Museum in Phnom Penh earlier in July. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): The US government will hand over 30 more Cambodian artefacts confiscated from private collections and museums in the United States to Cambodia’s representatives in New York in early August.

Hab Touch, spokesman for the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, said on Tuesday that the return of the items was being done in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the US and Cambodian governments for “Restrictions on the Importation of Cambodian Antiquities”.