Washington reaffirms its commitment to the protection of the "legacy" of Iraq

Washington reaffirms its commitment to the protection of the "legacy" of Iraq



FRIDAY, APRIL 12 / APRIL 2013 17:06

Twilight News / confirmed and the U.S. State Department, Friday, it is committed to the efforts of maintenance "legacy" civilized Iraq, particularly the rehabilitation of the Baghdad Museum, which displays to the biggest theft in history when the invasion of her country's troops in 2003 to Iraq.
The ministry said in a statement on its website seen by "Twilight News" that "great efforts have focused on the National Museum in Baghdad after led looting in April 2003, damaged the facility and generated an atmosphere unsafe for staff worker and museum alike."

According to specialist reports, there are nearly 170 thousand artifacts from Iraq lost during the invasion of the country in 2003, including 15 registered thousand pieces within the collection of the National Museum.

And managed by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Iraq after years of restoring thousands of pieces each fully damaged and others in moderate condition.

The U.S. State Department said that "ten years and continued joint work between the Iraqi side and the U.S. State Department for the rehabilitation of the National Museum of Iraq."

She added that "U.S. academics and non-profit organizations have worked with their Iraqi counterparts, to protect Iraq's heritage and preserve precious and create a museum to display its effects."

It pointed out that the cooperation in the field of cultural heritage is one of the important pillars within the strategic framework agreement between Iraq and the United States of America.

The ministry noted that it sponsored the initiative "project inheritance Iraqi civilization" cost about $ 13 million and implemented IDA and relief for the period from 2008 and 2011, and resulted in the rehabilitation and furnishing (11) Hall public view at the Museum of Baghdad, with a building for the storage of holdings in three floors with creating Laboratory maintenance, and provide a new roof to sophisticated systems to control the temperature in the atmosphere of the museum.

In Iraq, there about 12 thousand archaeological site dating back to the Sumerian civilization, Babylonians, Assyrians and Islamic civilization, and the state of Bani Abbas taken from Baghdad, the capital of five centuries, these places are still at risk of theft and looting, unauthorized excesses.

It is said that Iraq has signed an agreement with strategic frameworks and the United States in 2008, which provides support ministries, institutions and government departments in the Republic of Iraq, to ​​strengthen relations in all fields of culture and economic, diplomatic and security.

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