Peru’s Congress group in charge of the Repatriation of Cultural Heritage will send Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo and Culture Minister Luis Peirano a working plan to recover all the artifacts taken from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
Yonhy Lescano, head of said working group, noted that the document aims to initiate new negotiations with Yale University, as the former administration only achieved the return of 20 percent of the artifacts.
“The former government made us believe that we will recover everything. However, we will only get back 20 percent of all the pieces until the end of 2012. We still need to recover the remaining 80 percent. It is a significant amount of artifacts,” he said.
The congressman said that most of the archaeological relics belong to the private collection of US explorer Hiram Bingham.
Thus, Lescano said that they will hand ministers Roncagliolo and Peirano over a document including a series of measures such as calling on American authorities to get back what is pending.
Source: Andina [December 27, 2011]
