Armenia is a member to Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society. Under this Convention the Parties recognize that:

a everyone, alone or collectively, has the right to benefit from the cultural heritage and to contribute towards its enrichment;

b everyone, alone or collectively, has the responsibility to respect the cultural heritage of others as much as their own heritage, and consequently the common heritage of Europe;
c exercise of the right to cultural heritage may be subject only to those restrictions which are necessary in a democratic society for the protection of the public interest and the rights and freedoms of others.

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