Guatemala, Jan 19 (Prensa Latina) During an official visit to Guatemala concluding today, Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), described the trafficking of cultural items as a crime.

"We see a very negative trend in the world. We see that organized crime, which deals with arms, drug and human trafficking, is also involved in the illicit trafficking of cultural items", said Bokova during a tour across Antigua Guatemala, 40 kilometers southwest of the capital city.

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