Sec. 4. United States Coordinator for International Cultural Property Protection
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The Secretary of State shall designate a Department of State employee at the Assistant Secretary level or above to serve concurrently as the United States Coordinator for International Cultural Property Protection. The Coordinator shall— coordinate and promote efforts to protect international cultural property, especially activities that involve multiple Federal agencies; act as Chair of the Coordinating Committee on International Cultural Property Protection established under section 5; resolve interagency differences; develop strategies to reduce illegal trade and trafficking in international cultural property in the United States and abroad, including by reducing consumer demand for such trade; support activities to assist countries that are the principle sources of trafficked cultural property to protect cultural heritage sites and to prevent cultural property looting and theft; work with and consult domestic and international actors such as foreign governments, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, and research institutions to protect international cultural property; and submit to the appropriate congressional committees the annual report required under section 6.