A new international criminal treaty on cultural property was adopted by the Council of Europe (CoE) on May 4, 2017. The 2017 Council of Europe Convention on Offences relating to Cultural Property will be opened for signature by any nation on May 19. The Convention appears explicitly designed for a wartime environment and most of its provisions are aimed directly at the art trade. Despite increasing evidence that ISIS is focused on destroying art, not on selling it, the Convention preamble states that it was created in part because illicit trade in cultural property is growing and because of concerns that, “terrorist groups are involved in the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage and use the illicit trade of cultural property as a source of financing.”
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