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Layoun hands Iraqi Ambassador looted antiquities

NNA - Caretaker Culture Minister Gabi Layoun on Monday convened with the Iraqi Ambassador Raad Al-Alousi, and handed him over with ancient smuggled antiquities.



The Ambassador was accompanied with a delegation that came to receive these pieces.



The pieces were seized in 2012 from an Iraqi citizen in Lebanon. After his confession of stealing them, a judicial decision was taken to deposit the pieces at the General Directorate of Antiquities so as to take necessary legal action.



A committee of the Iraqi Ministry of Culture came to the Directorate to assert that these items belonged to the Iraqi republic.



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تابعوا أخبار الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام عبر أثير إذاعة لبنان على الموجات 98.5 و98.1 و96.2 FM

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