[CPProt.net] Sign the Petition to encourage Thailand and Singapore to enact legislation

[Dougald O'Reilly]

APPEAL TO HAVE THE GOVERNMENTS OF SINGAPORE AND THAILAND SIGN THE 1970 
UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the 
Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property

  Singapore has for centuries been a hub of international trade and it 
is this trade that has made the city great. Now one of the premier 
cities of Asia, Singapore remains a hub of the trade in antiquities. 
The same may be said for Bangkok where antiquities from all over the 
region are sold and shipped abroad.

  It is suspected that most artefacts illegally excavated by looters 
around Asia are transited through Singapore and Bangkok.

The reason for this is that these cities have very liberal laws 
pertaining to the sale and transit of cultural heritage.

With your help HeritageWatch will petition the governments of Singapore 
and Thailand to adopt stricter laws and limit the sale of antiquities 
with a foreign provenance.

Please help us convince these governments that this is necessary if we 
are to preserve the great heritage of Asia.

The petition is available at www.heritagewatch.org/petition.php

Dr Dougald O'Reilly
HeritageWatch,
GPO Box 1395
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
www.heritagewatch.org
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