Egypt invites Jordan to partake in conference on stolen antiquities

Egypt's Ambassador to Jordan Khaled Tharwat handed over on Sunday Jordanian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Nayef al Fayez an invitation from Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Damaty to attend an international conference on stolen antiquities.

The conference, slated to be held in Cairo on May 13-14, will mull over cultural, economic and security damage resulted from looting antiquities in the Middle East.

Speaking to MENA, Tharwat said that he handed Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh a similar invitation to attend the conference organized under the rubric "Cultural Property Under Threat".

Arab ministers of foreign affairs, antiquities and tourism ,UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and a number of concerned United Nations organizations will take part in the conference to discuss ways to prevent looting and smuggling antiquities, he added.