The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic on cooperation in fight against plunders of cultural values and ensuring their return

of August 28, 2012

The government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic which are 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 states of the Parties,

expressing concern that plunders of cultural values acquired transnational nature,

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 national legal systems of the states,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

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

cultural values - objects and/or collections, and also their components or fragments irrespective of time of their creation and pattern of ownership 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 national legal systems of the states 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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