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                      Chart of Emergency Actions & Bilateral Agreements


MOU = Memorandum of Understanding or Bilateral Agreement                                                                                                                                       See Chart sorted by Country

 

Country

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'93

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'99

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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)

 

Bolivia

 

March 14, '89: Emergency Action  on certain ethno. textiles.(expired Sept. 11, '96)

 

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

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)

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.

 

Mali

 

Sept. 23, '93: Emergency Action on archaeo. material.

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

 

Canada

 

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

 

Cyprus

Ethno

 

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

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

Cambodia

 

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

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

 

Nicaragua

 

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

 

Italy

 

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

Cyprus Archaeo

 

July 19, 2002: MOU on archaeo. material. On Sept. 4, '06, the MOU was amended to include prior protections.

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

Honduras

 

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

 

Colombia

 

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

Last updated on September 26, 2007