President Tassoulas: Strong argumentation for the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures

Τhe President of the Hellenic Republic Constantine Tassoulas, received the Presidents of the National Committees for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures successful the beingness of the Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni.

Tassoulas noted that their efforts astir the satellite person created a favourable question of nationalist sentiment successful enactment of the imaginativeness for the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. “The interaction connected nationalist sentiment successful your countries, particularly successful Great Britain, is 1 of the cardinal conditions for the occurrence of our goal,” helium said, adding that reunification is not a substance of triumph oregon defeat. “No 1 volition beryllium defeated if the sculptures are returned and reunited, due to the fact that this request belongs to the planetary taste assemblage and is yet universal,” helium added.

He besides stressed that Greece continues to fortify the arguments for its assertion with tangible grounds of its beardown volition and proven quality to protect, preserve, highlight, and negociate the sculptures successful the champion and astir scientifically and technically due way. He emphasised that for decades Greece has been implementing an exemplary and admirable programme of conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of each the monuments of the Acropolis, including the Parthenon.

“Greece has besides created the caller Acropolis Museum, a depository dedicated to these monuments, designed, built, and equipped according to the astir modern standards, successful bid to location the sculptures nether the champion imaginable conditions aft their repatriation. In doing so, it has refuted the British Museum’s past statement that Greece lacked suitable and worthy facilities. We person present completed 16 years of highly palmy cognition of this museum, which is among the astir important, recognisable, popular, and visited museums successful the world,” helium said.

Tassoulas reiterated that the Greek broadside has consistently expressed its sincere volition to assistance and cooperate with the British Museum truthful that the instrumentality of the Parthenon Sculptures does not make a spread successful its collections and accumulation programme. In return, Greece has offered imperishable and regularly renewed impermanent exhibitions and loans of antiquities of precocious prestige, creator merit, and humanities importance.

The International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures (IARPS) brings unneurotic 20 National Committees from 18 countries and supports the efforts of the Greek government.