The agreement on cooperation of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States in fight against plunders of cultural values and ensuring their return

of October 5, 2007

The State Parties of the Commonwealth Independent Gosudarstvuchastniki of this agreement, hereinafter referred to as with the Parties,

noting that plunders of cultural values irrespective of form of their property cause significant damage to preserving cultural heritage of the Parties,

expressing concern that plunders of cultural values acquired transnational nature,

recognizing that effective fight against plunders of cultural values is possible only on the basis of interaction of all concerned parties,

realizing need of implementation of agreed measures for prevention of plunders of cultural values and ensuring their return,

being guided by international treaties in this sphere which participants are the Parties, and also the national legal system,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the following terms are used:

cultural values - objects and/or collections of religious or secular nature, and also their components or fragments, irrespective of time of their creation, considered by each of the Parties as representing value for culture, archeology, history, literature, art or sciences;

plunder of cultural values - any illegal act directed to the occupancy by cultural values attracting responsibility according to the legislation of the Parties;

the stolen cultural values - cultural values concerning which there are bases to assume that they are plunder objects;

the central competent authority - state body of the Party, authorized to coordinate activities of competent authorities of the Party within this agreement;

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