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In accordance with the CPIA (the enabling legislation for the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property), the United States Department of State accepted China's requests for import restrictions on the archaeological or ethnological artefacts putting their national cultural heritage in jeopardy.

By Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State Office of the Spokesman, July 23, 2009

It may be recalled here United States Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Officer of Anti Terrorism Assistance setup a camp at Police College Sihala to train counter terrorism Crises Response teams in 2003 but slowly they have occupied the area and now administration of college even commandant Nasir Khan Durrani are not being allowed to visit the site, sources told.

The multi-instrumentalist has toured Russia and Central Asia on behalf of the US Department of State In February 2008, the Chris Byars Quartet embarked on a 29-day tour to Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Montenegro, and Slovenia as part of the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad Programme, administered by the United States Department of State and Jazz.

or abroad, or exported out of the United States, without specific approval of a knowledgeable NASA export control official, and/or unless an export license or license exemption is obtained or available from the United States Department of State, NASA states on its Web site.

NET--The United States Department of State has posted an overview of skateboarding titled "Skateboarding Grows from Casual Hobby to International Sport.

The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Committees of experts in the United States Department of State, building on more than three years of earlier study, worked for several months drafting the tentative proposals that became the working paper of the Conversations.