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Peru talks to enter key phase

Machu Picchu artifacts will be focus of next week’s discussions in New Haven

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, September 6, 2007

Yale and Peru are closer than ever to resolving their long-standing dispute over artifacts from Machu Picchu, and a delegation from Peru will be arriving at Yale late next week for negotiations about the status of the objects.

Yale, Peruvian and U.S. officials said negotiations were jump-started under the new Peruvian administration of President Alan Garcia, and a threatened legal battle is now seen as unlikely. Over the summer, Yale’s general counsel traveled to Peru, and the University pledged to provide an inventory of the artifacts by the end of the year. Now, a delegation of...

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