{"id":54945,"date":"2015-09-16T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=54945"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T08:10:07","slug":"unesco-combating-smuggling-syrian-antiquities-is-top-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=54945","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO: Combating smuggling Syrian antiquities top priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia, SANA- Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova warned that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is carrying out wide-scale looting of antiquities in Syria, announcing that combating antiquity trafficking is UNESCO&#8217;s top priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Satellite imagery shows that archaeological sites in Syria are dotted by thousands of illegal excavations&#8230; that show there is looting on an industrial scale,&#8221; Bokova said during a press conference in Sofia.<\/p>\n<p>She added that smuggling antiquities aims to finance extremists, stressing the necessity that EU countries adopt tougher legislations against antiquities smuggling operations.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq are looting cultural heritage and antiquities through Turkish dealers. Looting represents the second-largest cash source for terrorists after stealing oil.<\/p>\n<p>Manar al-Frieh\/Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia, SANA- Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova warned that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is carrying out wide-scale looting of antiquities in Syria, announcing that combating antiquity trafficking is UNESCO&#8217;s top priority. &#8220;Satellite imagery shows that archaeological sites in Syria are dotted by thousands &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987,100],"tags":[5628,828],"class_list":["post-54945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","category-news","tag-irina-bokova","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}