Syria

Commitments

Status as shown on the official registers on the date we checked. Joining a treaty is a legal commitment; it does not show how well it is kept.

• Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention, 1954)
  ✓ Party · ratification · 5 March 1958

  Also listed as a signatory on 14 May 1954.

  Source: UNESCO Legal Affairs

• Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (First Protocol, 1954)
  ✓ Party · ratification · 5 March 1958

  Also listed as a signatory on 14 May 1954.

  Source: UNESCO Legal Affairs

• Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999)
  ◐ Signed only · 26 March 1999 (signature)

  Signature date shown; no deposit of an instrument of ratification is listed on the page at the access date.

  Source: UNESCO Legal Affairs

• Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention, 1972)
  ✓ Party · acceptance · 13/08/1975 (Ac)

  Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
  ◐ Signed only · 29 Nov 2000 (signature)

  Signature date shown; no deposit of an instrument of ratification is listed on the page at the access date.

  Source: United Nations Treaty Collection

Instruments not shown here have not been researched yet. They are not assumed to be absent.

Sites

• Ancient City of Aleppo — Middle East
• Ancient City of Damascus — Middle East (Levant)
• Ancient City of Bosra — Middle East (southern Syria)
• Site of Palmyra — Middle East
• Crac des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah El-Din — Western Asia (Levant)
• Ancient Villages of Northern Syria — Middle East

Related cases

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 2199 (2015) on terrorist financing, including trade in cultural property from Iraq and Syria — UN Security Council or UN action (named in paragraph 17 (items illegally removed from Syria since 15 March 2011))
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 2347 (2017) on the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict — UN Security Council or UN action (named in paragraph 8 (items illegally removed from Syria since 15 March 2011))