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Cambodia ratifies UN law to protct stolen artifacts

Cambodia has ratified a United Nations law aimed at returning stolen or illegally exported cultural objects plundered from the kingdom in more than two decades of civil war.

Cambodia's national assembly voted unanimously in favour of a UNESCO convention drafted in Rome in 1995.

Cambodia's chairman of the national assembly Prince Norodom Ranriddh, says the law will allow the country to bring back its lost heritage.

Theft from temples in Cambodia, home of the famed Angkor Wat complex, is a decades-old problem.

4/01/02 10:10:03 | ABC Radio Australia News

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