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RARE PHOTOS: Swiss return three confiscated artefacts to iraq - The Real Truth

One of the Assyrian reliefs from the eighth century BC that were returned to Iraq by Switzerland on Friday (Credit: AFP)

Switzerland's foreign minister on Friday returned to her Iraqi counterpart three important Mesopotamian objects seized during a criminal procedure, the Swiss government said.

During a ceremony at the culture ministry in Bern, Elisabeth Baume-Schneider handed over a partial statue and two Mesopotamian reliefs to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.

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