Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act Directs the Department of State to designate a Department employee at the Assistant Secretary level or above to serve concurrently as the United States Coordinator for International Cultural Property Protection to coordinate and promote federal agency efforts to address international cultural property protection activities. Establishes a Coordinating Committee on International Cultural Property Protection to facilitate the Coordinator's work. Authorizes any agency involved in international cultural property protection activities to enter into agreements with the Smithsonian Institution to engage Smithsonian personnel temporarily to assist in such activities. Directs the President to apply specified import restrictions with respect to any archaeological or ethnological material of Syria as if Syria were a State Party to the Convention on prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property.…