This major new international treaty, long proposed by the Institute for
the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) amd UNESCO to provide for those
claiming items stolen abroad or smuggled out of a country access to, and
legal remedy in,  the `holding' or `receiving' country's national
courts for was adopted by the Diplomatic Conference in Rome 7 - 25 June
1995.

The full English text is now on our World Wide Web:

   http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/unidroit.html

with Annex (definitions of `cultural property') and lists of
participating States - abstracted from the Final Act of the Diplomatic
Conference.


Patrick Boylan
City University, London