Cyprus, in order to achieve the best possible results regarding the protection of its cultural inheritance, is also a contracting party to the 1954 Hague Convention for “the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict” (1964). This international agreement is considered to be the most important in the case of Cyprus. In particular, article 4(3) of the said Convention states that the occupying power undertakes to “Prohibit, prevent and, if necessary, put a stop to any form of theft, pillage or misappropriation of any acts of vandalism directed against, cultural property”.