Cairo Declaration on the protection of cultural property

The Cairo Declaration on the Protection of Cultural Property was adopted by consensus at a regional conference convened from 14 to 16 February 2004 in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. This meeting was organized jointly by the Egyptian national IHL Committee, the ICRC, the Egyptian Red Crescent and UNESCO. In particular, the Declaration recommends that States should accede to the 1954 Convention and its two Protocols of 1954 and 1999 and that measures should be adopted in order to implement these instruments at national level.