Experts: Return lost artefacts to their owners

CHINA’S most distinguished relics experts are urging the return of lost artefacts, especially those illegally obtained, to their original countries.  

At a forum held on Tuesday in Beijing, they voiced their firm opposition to a joint statement issued on Dec 19 by the curators of 18 museums in Europe and the United States, including the Palais Du Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which was the first public refusal to return illegally-obtained artefacts to their original countries.