Iraq recovers 6000,<> artifacts from Britain

The pieces were taken out of Iraq in 1923. Archival

Iraq yesterday praised the British government's positive role in helping to recover 6000,1923 artifacts removed from Iraq in <>.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Iraqi government "looks forward to the cooperation of all countries, institutions and international organizations with Iraqi efforts to recover every piece of antiquities illegally removed from Iraq, and stop illegal trade in them."

She stressed that «the government was and is still mobilizing all its capabilities to recover the pieces of antiquities of Iraqi civilization that were looted and taken out at various times, and we will spare no effort to pursue any piece around the world, because it is part of the heritage of the Iraqi people and their cultural wealth, and their honorable civilizational product».

She explained that "restoring any part of the evidence of our rich Iraqi history to where it belongs, is a source of great pride and happiness for all Iraqis, and we hope that the period spent by the recently recovered Iraqi artifacts has served scientific and knowledge research in the great cultural heritage of our antiquities by specialists."

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid received on the fifth of this month, on the sidelines of his participation in the coronation ceremony of King Charles III, 6000,1923 Iraqi artifacts from Britain that had been borrowed from Iraq for study purposes since <>.