Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Stavros Lambrinidis signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States and Greece concerning the imposition of import restrictions on categories of archaeological and Byzantine ecclesiastical and ethnological material from prehistory through the 15th century A.D. The agreement will strengthen collaboration to reduce looting and trafficking of antiquities, and provide for the return to Greece of any looted materials. It also aims to further the international interchange of such materials for cultural, educational, and scientific purposes. The American School was a strong supporter of this agreement. In October of 2010, archaeologist James C. Wright, Managing Committee member from Bryn Mawr College, represented the ASCSA at a hearing of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee at the U.S. State Department on the issue, and provided detailed documentation on looted tombs at his site near Nemea, as well as describing the damage looters wreak on other sites. Many others from the School wrote letters of support for the Memorandum and contributed to the effort to see this MoU enacted. For more details on the MoU, visit: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/168670.htm