Assistant Secretary of Point out for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Lee Satterfield will journey to New York, New York on Monday, August 8, in which she will be a part of the Honorable Keo Chhea, the Authorities of the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ambassador to the United States and representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (USASD) and Homeland Stability Investigations (HSI) for a repatriation ceremony of 30 parts of cultural property, which includes a 10th Century sculpture ‘Skanda on a Peacock,’ which has cultural and spiritual significance to the people of Cambodia.  The Assistant Secretary’s check out will adhere to Secretary of Point out Antony Blinken’s travel to Cambodia this 7 days and underscores the United States’ motivation to preserving cultural heritage and house in Cambodia and around the planet, as very well as the bilateral and people today-to-men and women associations amongst the United States and Cambodia.

Assistant Secretary Satterfield will also emphasize Cambodia’s regional leadership as a lover in cultural heritage security via the U.S.-Cambodia cultural residence agreement, the only these types of agreement between the United States and an ASEAN member.   For far more than 20 many years, the United States has worked to guard, protect, and honor Cambodia’s loaded cultural heritage with Cambodian companions, American educational institutions, and nonprofit corporations.

Monday’s repatriation ceremony is component of the United States’ whole-of-govt solution to preserving and preserving world wide cultural heritage.  Through the U.S. Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee, 16 U.S. authorities organizations, led by the Office of State and chaired by Assistant Secretary Satterfield, work together to disrupt looting and illegal trade of international cultural house, though also marketing the lawful exchange of cultural home for cultural, educational, and scientific reasons.

Monday’s ceremony is open to the media contact [email protected] for extra particulars.  Stick to along on Twitter at @ECA_AS and at U.S. Attorney’s Business office for the Southern District of New York |…