[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 235 (Thursday, December 7, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71015-71016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-20791]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5625]


Notice of Proposal to Extend the Memorandum of Understanding 
Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Republic of Cyprus Concerning the Imposition of 
Import Restrictions on Pre-Classical and Classical Archaeological 
Objects and Byzantine Period Ecclesiastical and Ritual Ethnological 
Materials

    The Government of the Republic of Cyprus has informed the 
Government of the United States of its interest in an

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extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of 
the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of 
Cyprus Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Pre-
Classical and Classical Archaeological Objects which entered into force 
on July 19, 2002, and was amended on September 4, 2006, to include the 
aforementioned Byzantine Period materials that had been restricted from 
importation pursuant to prior emergency action.
    Pursuant to the authority vested in the Assistant Secretary for 
Educational and Cultural Affairs, and pursuant to the requirement under 
19 U.S.C. 2602(f)(1), an extension of this Memorandum of Understanding 
is hereby proposed.
    Pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2602(f)(2), the views and recommendations of 
the Cultural Property Advisory Committee regarding this proposal will 
be requested.
    A copy of this Memorandum of Understanding, the designated list of 
restricted categories of material, and related information can be found 
at the following Web site: http://exchanges.state.gov/culprop.

    Dated: November 28, 2006.
Dina Habib Powell,
Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of 
State.
 [FR Doc. E6-20791 Filed 12-6-06; 8:45 am]
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