{"id":57301,"date":"2015-10-11T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=57301"},"modified":"2015-10-11T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T06:55:27","slug":"unesco-need-for-stopping-illicit-trafficking-of-syrian-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=57301","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO: Need for stopping illicit trafficking of\u00a0Syrian cultural heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MOSCOW, SANA- The UN Education, Science and\u00a0Culture Organization (UNESCO) has said that its\u00a0top priority is preventing illicit trafficking of\u00a0Syrian cultural properties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova told &#8220;Russia\u00a024&#8221; Channel that &#8220;illicit trafficking of the Syrian cultural properties is one of the main\u00a0sources of financing the terrorists in the\u00a0country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This means that stopping this source of funding,\u00a0along with the money (billions of dollars) the terrorists are getting by selling the Syrian oil\u00a0and by drug and human trafficking, comes on top priorities of the international agenda, Bokovva\u00a0added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that &#8220;many documented incidents of\u00a0unauthorized archeological excavations are being observed by satellite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last February, the UN Security Council unanimously\u00a0adopted resolution No.2199 providing for halting the funding obtained by of the Islamic State in\u00a0Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Jabhat al-Nusra and\u00a0other terrorist organizations through selling stolen oil<br \/>\nand antiquities and through ransoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution calls for criminalizing all who buy\u00a0the stolen oil from al-Qaeda-linked terrorist and extremist organizations and for judging them\u00a0as colluding parties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">H. Zain\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, SANA- The UN Education, Science and\u00a0Culture Organization (UNESCO) has said that its\u00a0top priority is preventing illicit trafficking of\u00a0Syrian cultural properties. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova told &#8220;Russia\u00a024&#8221; Channel that &#8220;illicit trafficking of the Syrian cultural properties is one of the main\u00a0sources of financing the terrorists in the\u00a0country&#8221;. This means that stopping this source of funding,\u00a0along &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6990,8,6987],"tags":[828],"class_list":["post-57301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-archeology","category-arts-culture","category-latest-news","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301"}],"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=57301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}