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Chart of Emergency Actions & Bilateral Agreements

 

MOU = Memorandum of Understanding, or Bilateral Agreement.                                                      See Chart in Chronological Order

 

Country

‘87

‘88

‘89

‘90

‘91

‘92

‘93

‘94

‘95

‘96

‘97

‘98

‘99

‘00

‘01

‘02

‘03

‘04

‘05

‘06

‘07

‘08

‘09

‘10

‘11

Bolivia

 

March 14, 1989: Emergency Action  on certain ethno. textiles.(expired Sept. 11, ‘96)

 

Dec. 7, ‘01:  MOU on archaeo. &  ethno. material (extended Dec. 4, ‘06).

Cambodia

 

Dec. 2, ‘99:  Emergency Action archaeo. material.

Sept. 22, ‘03: MOU on Khmer archaeo. material.

 

Canada

 

April 22, ‘97: MOU  on archaeo. and ethno. material. (exp. ‘02)

 

Colombia

 

March 15, ‘06: MOU on archaeo. & ethno. material.

Cyprus Archaeo

 

July 19, 02: MOU on archaeo. material. Sept. 4, ‘06, amended to include prior protections.

July 16, ‘07: Amended Bilateral Agreement on archaeo. & ethno. material is extended.

Cyprus

Ethno

 

April 12, ‘99: Emergency Action  on ‘ethno. material (extended Aug. 29, ‘03).

El Salvador

Sept. 11, ‘87: Emergency Action on Cara Sucia pre-Columbian material.

March 10, ‘95: MOU on pre-Columbian material. Continues protection for Cara Sucia material. (extended March 8, ‘00, and March 8, ‘05)

 

Guatemala

 

April 15, ‘91: Emergency Action on pre-Columbian material from Petén.

Oct. 3, ‘97: MOU on pre-Columbian material. Continues protection for Petén material. (extended Sept. 29, ‘02); extended & amended Sept. 29, 07. 

Honduras

 

March 12, ‘04: MOU on pre-Columbian material.

 

Italy

 

Jan. 23, ‘01, MOU  on certain archaeological material (extended on 19 January ‘06).

Mali

 

Sept. 23, ‘93: Emergency Action on arch. material.

Sept. 23, ‘97: MOU on archaeo. material from the Niger River Valley and Bandiagara Escarpment. Continues previous protection (extended Sept. 19, ‘02; extended & amended Sept. 19, 07). 

Nicaragua

 

Oct. 26, ‘00: MOU  on pre-Columbian material (extended 20 Oct ‘05).

 

Peru

 

May 7, ‘90: Emergency Action on pre-Columbian material from Sipán.

June 11, ‘97: MOU  on pre-Columbian material and Colonial ethnological material. Continues previous protection.(extended June 6, ‘02, and June 9, 07)

 

Updated on 26 September 2007