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