States can become parties to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects by means of:
Draft model instrument for the ratification, acceptance or approval
Draft model instrument for accession
The Convention makes provision for certain formalities to be carried out to be carried out at the time of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. Translation of the formalities into Arabic prepared by the UNESCO Iraq Bureau.
rofessor Ignacio Tirado was appointed Secretary-General by the Governing Council at its 97th session, and officially took office on 27 August 2018. A national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London. Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for more than nine years, having also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters as well as for the Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform.