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Culture Under Threat: Antiquities Trafficking and Terrorist Financing - Keynote Remarks

NEW YORK, September 24, 2015 — UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova delivers the keynote remarks at Culture Under Threat: Antiquities Trafficking and Terrorist Financing, a special forum on finding regional solutions to the surge in the destruction and looting of antiquities across the Middle East. (24 min., 41 sec.)

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