• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 03 / 10 / 2011

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The Peruvian government confirmed on Tuesday that all the Inca archeological relics at Yale University, US, will be returned to Peru, and denied a denunciation by Parliamentarian Yonhy Lescano that only 20 percent of the pieces will be sent back to Peru.

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Culture, Jose Garcia Belaunde, and Juan Ossio, respectively, said that the return will be total.

Belaunde added that he was summoned to a meeting by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Congress to inform on the process to return the Inca relics, following the denunciation made by Lescano.

The Foreign minister said that it is very clear in the agreement signed by the Peruvian government and Yale University that all Inca pieces taken out of the country by expeditionary Hiram Bingham about a century ago will return to Peru. Ossio explained that the return of the pieces given to Bingham as a loan by the Peruvian State in 1912 and 1914 will return in groups.The first archaeological relics will arrive in March 2011, and the last ones at the end of 2012.

Prensa Latina Translation Staff