The Ministry of Culture considers that the agreement has lost its practical relevance, in the context of the updating of national legislation and its alignment with European Union standards. In 2023, the Regulation on the Movement of Movable Cultural Goods was approved, and in 2025 amendments were made to the Law on the Protection of Movable National Cultural Heritage. These provide for mechanisms to protect, identify, recover and return cultural property unlawfully removed from the Republic of Moldova.
Another reason for denouncing the agreement is that the intergovernmental commission provided for in the document was never established. This commission was to develop the mechanism for the return of cultural property and to determine the categories of property eligible for return. The absence of the commission has limited the practical application of the agreement.
As the document does not provide for an explicit withdrawal procedure, the authorities are invoking the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which stipulates that notice of the intention to denounce must be given at least 12 months in advance.
The Government has already approved the denunciation of the agreement. It now remains for Parliament to approve it.
The decision represents a further step by the Republic of Moldova towards reducing its participation in CIS agreements. This year alone, the Agreement on the Establishment of the CIS and the related Protocol, the CIS Statute, the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Publishing, Distribution of Books and Printing, the Agreement on Inter-library Exchange, the Agreement on Cooperation in Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the Protocol on Cooperation in Criminal Matters.
This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
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