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German police hand over antiquities to Vietnam

The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on March 29 received antiques which Berlin police seized from an unidentified Vietnamese entrepreneur in late 2016.
German police hand over antiquities to Vietnam ảnh 1The objects that the Vietnamese Embassy receives from Berlin police on March 29 (Photo: VNA)

Berlin (VNA) – The VietnameseEmbassy in Germany on March 29 received antiques which Berlin police seizedfrom an unidentified Vietnamese entrepreneur in late 2016.

Berlin police said the objects consist of 10stone tools and eight bronze tools. Archaeologists from many in Berlin examinedthese objects and found they date back to between the second and the seventhcenturies BC and could belong to tombs in the third century BC.

Per the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means ofProhibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownershipof Cultural Property, because the Vietnamese entrepreneur failed to prove theorigin and ownership of the items, the antiques have to be returned to Vietnam.

Receiving the objects, Vietnamese Ambassador toGermany Doan Xuan Hung thanked agencies of Berlin and the German Foreign Officefor returning the antiquities to Vietnam. He added the items will be brought toVietnam for research and exhibition purposes.

He hailed Germany as a member seriouslyimplementing the UNESCO convention, appreciating its assistance for Vietnam inpreserving cultural relics, especially in the former imperial capital of Hue.

The diplomat said the stealing of antiquities inVietnam has been better controlled in recent years but is not completely eliminated.Therefore, the country wants to continue receiving support from Germany in the future.-VNA
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