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Sotheby 's of New York agreed to return an ancient statue to Cambodia following a legal dispute over the past year .
The agreement signed Sotheby 's lawyer and the U.S. government said the statue will be returned to the representative of Cambodia in New York within 90 days .
The statue was withdrawn from auction in 2011 after the Cambodian government said that the statue was abducted from the Koh Ker temple complex in the 1970s .
After failed negotiations with Sotheby's , U.S. prosecutors filed a lawsuit last year on the grounds that the auction house knew the statue was stolen when imported into the U.S. .
However, the agreement signed on Thursday ( 12/12 ) - as reported by AP news agency - has been revoked alleged that Sotheby 's knew the statue as stolen and they do not know it as belonging to the Kingdom Kambola as misinformed .
Cambodian government spokesman , Ek Tha , welcomed the agreement reached .
" I believe the spirit of the Khmer ancestors who built this statue will stand up and smiled when the statue back , " he told the AP .
The agreement was reached following an original sculpture dikembalikannnya Ages 10 of the same temple by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , this summer . ( BBC )
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