DEEPLY CONCERNED by the illicit trade in cultural objects and the irreparable damage frequently caused by it, both to these objects themselves and to the cultural heritage of national, tribal, indigenous or other communities, and also to the heritage of all peoples, and in particular by the pillage of archaeological sites and the resulting loss of irreplaceable archaeological, historical and scientific information,
GLOBOKO ZASKRBLJENE zaradi nedovoljene trgovine s predmeti kulturne dediščine in nepopravljive škode, ki jo ta pogosto povzroča tem predmetom samim in kulturni dediščini narodnih, plemenskih, domorodnih ter drugih skupnosti kot tudi dediščini vseh ljudi, in še zlasti zaradi ropanja arheoloških območij, kar ima za posledico izgubo nenadomestljivih arheoloških, zgodovinskih in znanstvenih informacij,