Egypt emphasizes international community’s commitment to assist Iraq to preserve its legacy

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Spokesperson of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed his country’s condemnation for the attacks of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) organization on the Iraqi cultural legacy that extends for thousands of years through the destructions of great number of antiquities in the Mosul Museum that represent different components of the Iraqi identity.

The spokesman stressed in a statement received by IraqiNews.com the importance of the international community’s commitment to the UNESCO’s resolution which states assisting Iraq to preserve its legacy as well as to fight the smuggling and trafficking of antiquities. /End/