The Embassy is actively working to get better and return Nepal’s stolen cultural treasures.

The Embassy of Nepal dispatched 40 picket gadgets that had been offered by the Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) department of the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) to Nepal. Qatar Airways transported the artifacts. The Embassy plans to ship them to the Division of Archaeology in Kathmandu, Nepal, on August 12, 2023.

The US Customs and Border Safety (CBP) confiscated these unlawfully taken Nepalese artifacts in Hawaii throughout August 2010. In 2011, the Nepalese authorities formally made a request to the USA authorities for the repatriation of this stuff.

Throughout a ceremonial occasion on Might 11, 2023, the Embassy of Nepal acquired these artifacts from the HSI. The gathering included 39 elaborately crafted picket panels and a carved picket shrine. Out of those, 4 had been randomly chosen for show in the course of the switch ceremony. As soon as once more, this stuff had been showcased throughout a Nepal tourism promotion occasion on August 1, 2023, on the Embassy.

Qatar Airways Cargo generously supported the transportation of those artifacts. Qatar Airways Cargo transported them from Washington D.C.’s Dulles Worldwide Airport (IAD) to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan Worldwide Airport (TIA). The Embassy expresses honest gratitude to Qatar Airways Cargo. They responded to the Embassy’s request and helped ship these artifacts to Nepal. The Embassy is grateful for his or her help.

The Embassy is actively working to get better and return Nepal’s stolen cultural treasures. It’s collaborating with completely different entities, equivalent to Nepal’s authorities departments, Homeland Safety Investigations underneath the Division of Homeland Safety, the Division of State, US Customs and Border Safety (CBP), artwork analysis specialists, heritage restoration advocates, media, and people. The Embassy needs to specific its wholehearted acknowledgment. It’s grateful to all events and people concerned. They’ve contributed collaboratively to those endeavors.

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Up till now, the Embassy has returned a complete of 47 artifacts. These maintain historic, cultural, and non secular significance to Nepal. The returns have taken place since April 2022.