Explanation:

Only statements 1&2 are correct.

Cultural Property Agreement (CPA)

• India and the United States of America signed the first ever 'Cultural Property Agreement' recently on the side-lines of the 46th World Heritage Committee at New Delhi.

• Cultural Property Agreement (CPA) aims to prevent illegal trafficking of cultural property and retrieval of antiquarian objects to their place of origin.

• India and the United States of America signed the first ever 'Cultural Property Agreement' to prevent and curb the illicit trafficking of antiquities from India to the USA.

• The CPA restricts the importation into the United States of certain archaeological material ranging in date from 1.7 million years ago through 1770 CE.

• It also restricts certain ethnological material ranging in date from 2nd century BCE to 1947 CE.

• Ethnological material includes categories of civic, religious, and royal architectural material, religious material and ceremonial items and manuscripts.

• It was signed recently on the sidelines of the 46th World Heritage Committee, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

• CPA is aligned with the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, to which both countries are States party.

• The antiquities that have been smuggled out of India before the ratification of 1970 UNESCO Convention are housed at various museums, institutions and private collections across the world.

• India has repatriated 358 antiquities since 1976, out of these 345 have been retrieved since 2014.

• The Kashi Culture Pathway is a document that was unanimously endorsed by the G20 Culture Ministers' meeting in Varanasi in August 2023.

Hence option 2nd is correct.