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(LIP-ir) -- Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Karen Hughes, Peru's General Director of Cultural Patrimony, Ambassador Liliana Cino and Peru's Director of the National Institute of Culture (INC), Cecilia Bákula participated in an event to extend a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that protects Peru's cultural patrimony.

The event took place at Peru's National Museum, where the officials expressed the importance and success achieved due to the Memorandum of Understanding, which has now been extended to 2012.

The recovery of over 300 archaeological artifacts, recovered from Miami, Florida, U.S., was announced and attributed to the MOU.

The MOU restricts the import of pre-Columbian archaeological artifacts and Colonial ethnological materials from all areas of Peru, thus creating measures to protect Peru's cultural patrimony.

"The Memorandum of Understanding has turned into a tool that facilitates the legal documentation for the defense and repatriation of pieces important to our cultural patrimony," said Peru's Director of the National Institute of Culture.

It was also reported that an agreement will be made with the University of Yale in the U.S. with respect to pieces taken form the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru.

Dr. Bákula stated that a diplomatic team from Peru, headed by Hernán Garrido Lecca, will go and settle an Agreement of Understanding with the U.S. university.

The University of Yale will, for the first time, give an inventory of the thousands of pieces they possess.

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