"The controversial French report recommending a systematic and 
unconditional return of African cultural heritage was all-but buried 
yesterday at a conference in Paris. The report's authors Bénédicte Savoy 
and Felwin Sarr raised alarm in French and European museums by 
recommending automatic restitutions to African states of all goods 
seized during the colonial era. In his opening speech at the symposium 
on Thursday, the French culture minister Franck Riester only pledged 
that "France will examine all requests presented by African nations" but 
asked them not to "focus on the sole issue of restitution....The 
conference was attended by some 200 archaeologists, anthropologists, art 
historians, curators and representatives of ministries of culture from 
Europe and Africa. Despite being invited to address the meeting by the 
minister, Savoy and Sarr failed to show. They were not available for 
immediate comment."

THE ART NEWSPAPER

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/france-buries-restitution-report?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=2ad81f940d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_01_02_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c459f924d0-2ad81f940d-61139127

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