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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs SRE delivered to the federal Ministry of Culture through the National Institute of Anthropology and History INAH 223 archaeological pieces recovered by the Embassy of Mexico in the Netherlands. The pieces are part of the archaeological heritage of our country in accordance with the Federal Law on Monuments and Archaeological Artistic and Historical Zones.The opinion carried out by INAH specialists confirms that these are pre-Hispanic pieces belonging to different cultures coming from the west the Central Highlands the Gulf of Mexico and the southeast region. Its elaboration goes from the Mesoamerican Preclassic period 1200 BC-400 BC to the Postclassic period 800 AD to 1521 AD.At the award ceremony the Director General for Europe of the Foreign Ministry Bernardo Aguilar Calvo expressed the profound gratitude of the Government of Mexico for this act of collaboration and friendship to the deputy ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Mexico Anne Le Guellec.Likewise the SREs assistant legal consultant B Salvador Tinajero Esquivel commented on the invaluable support given by the Government of the Netherlands to combat the illicit trafficking of archaeological and cultural objects in addition to the measures that must be adopted to prohibit and prevent the illicit import export and transfer of cultural property.In turn Ambassador Anne Le Guellec referred to the positive trend in international practices that address the restitution of cultural and heritage objects to their communities of origin based on respect ethics and the protection of their legitimate human rights. The restitution of these movable assets constitutes a sample of the active cooperation between the Government of Mexico and the Kingdom of the Netherlands in terms of protection of cultural assets as well as a commitment to the return of historical and cultural legacies to their places of origin. It is important to mention that the repatriated assets are already under the protection of the INAH for their due analysis care conservation and dissemination They are testimonies of the peoples who made and used them.The Government of Mexico reaffirms its commitment to actively participate in the protection of cultural heritage around the world and to follow up on the efforts made to combat the illicit trafficking of cultural property and the repatriation of pieces that are national heritage and that are found illegally. illegal abroad.
