TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 18-919

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CULTURAL EXCHANGES, PROPERTY 

AND COOPERATION

Import Restrictions

Memorandum of Understanding

 Between the

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and CAMBODIA

Signed at Phnom Penh September 12, 2018
 NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

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(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

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 CAMBODIA

 Cultural Exchanges, Property and

 Cooperation: Import Restrictions

 Memorandum of understanding signed at 

 Phnom Penh September 12, 2018;

 Entered into force September 19, 2018.

 

 
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING 

BETWEEN 

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

AND 

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA 

CONCERNING THE IMPOSITION OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 

ON CATEGORIES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL OF CAMBODIA 

The Government ofthe United States of America and the Government ofthe Kingdom of 

Cambodia (''the Parties"); 

Acting pursuant to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means ofProhibiting and Preventing 

the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer ofOwnership ofCultural Property, to which both 

countries are States party; 

Desiring to reduce the incentive for pillage of irreplaceable archaeological material representing 

Cambodia's rich cultural heritage; and 

Recalling the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government ofthe United States of 

America and the Government of the l\.ingdom of Cambodia Concerning the Imposition ofImport 

Restrictions on Khmer Archaeological Material, signed at Phnom Penh September 19, 2003, as 

extended by exchanges of notes dated August 14 and 26, 2008, and amended and extended by 

exchanges of notes dated July 18 and August 6, 2013 (''the prior MOU"); 

Have agreed as follows: 

ARTICLE I 

I. The Government ofthe United States ofAmerica shall, in accordance with its legislation, 

including the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, restrict the importation 

into the United States of certain archaeological material ranging in date from the Bronze Age 

(c. 1500 B.C.) through the Khmer Era (c. 1600 A.D.), which may include categories of stone, 

metal, ceramics, glass, and bone identified on the list to be promulgated by the Government 

ofthe United States of America (hereinafter referred to as the Designated List), unless the 

Government ofthe Kingdom ofCambodia issues a license which certifies that such 

exportation was not in violation ofits laws. 

2. Such import restrictions went into effect on September 22, 2003, and shall continue to be 

effective from the date of publication ofthe Designated List in the U.S. Federal Register, the 

official U.S. Government publication providing fair public notice. 
3. The Government of the United States of America shall offer for return to the Government the 

Kingdom ofCambodia any object or material on the Designated List forfeited to the 

Government of the United States ofAmerica. 

ARTICLE II 

1. Both Governments shall publicize this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the 

reasons for it. 

2. The Government ofthe Kingdom of Cambodia shall continue to use its best efforts to 

maintain and share with the Government of the United States of America information about 

unauthorized excavations, thefts of cultural property, trafficking of cultural property, and 

other threats that jeopardize its cultural patrimony. 

3. The Government ofthe Kingdom of Cambodia shall continue to use its best efforts to take 

steps consistent with the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means ofProhibiting and 

Preventing the Illicit Export, Import, and Transfer of Ownership ofCultural Property to 

protect its cultural patrimony. To assist in these efforts, the Government ofthe United States 

of America shall use its best efforts to facilitate technical assistance to the Government ofthe 

Kingdom of Cambodia as appropriate under available programs in the public and/or private 

sectors. 

4. The Government ofthe Kingdom ofCambodia shall continue to use its best efforts to engage 

other countries having a significant import trade in archaeological material from Cambodia to 

deter a serious situation of pillage of cultural property. 

5. Each Government shall use best efforts to encourage further interchange of archaeological 

material for cultural, educational, and scientific purposes, including long-term loans of such 

material to promote widespread public appreciation of and access to Cambodia's rich cultural 

heritage. 

6. Each Government shall continue to endeavor to keep the other informed ofthe measures 

taken to implement this MOU. 

ARTICLE III 

The obligations of both Governments and the activities carried out under this MOU shall be 

subject to their respective laws and regulations, including with respect to the availability of 

appropriated funds. 
ARTICLE IV 

1. This MOU shall enter into force on September 19, 2018. Upon entry into force, it shall 

supersede the prior MOU, and shall remain in force for a period of five (5) years, unless 

extended. 

2. This MOU may be extended and amended only by mutual written consent of the Parties. 

3. The Government ofthe United States ofAmerica and the Government ofthe Kingdom of 

Cambodia shall review the effectiveness ofthis MOU before the expiration ofthe five (5)­

year period in order to determine whether the MOU should be extended. 

4. Either Party may notify the other, in writing through diplomatic channels, ofits intention to 

terminate this MOU prior to its date of expiry. In such a case, the termination shall come 

into effect six (6) months after the date of notification. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized by their respective 

Governments, have signed the present MOU. 

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DONE at PhnolN\ i'e..nk ,on this St.,pte,...,..bu \1r'in duplicate, in the English and Khmer 

languages, both texts being equally autlientic. 

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