Story first published by Ta Nea on Saturday on 03 December revealed 13 months of talks between Greece and the British Museum were progressing to find a solution for the plight of the Parthenon Marbles. Today, Monday 05 December 2022 Ta Nea followed this story’s take up by many outlets, globally.
UNESCO’s ICPRCP decisions at their meeting in Paris in May of this year emphasised the need for talks, preceded it now seems by PM Mitsotakis London visit the previous November when he met with the then UK PM, Johnson.
The news coverage in Ta Nea through their London correspondent Yannis Andritsopoulos for the past 4 years has intensified. To read more, see follow up article in today’s Ta Nea, link here.
"It's good that the two sides are finally talking. I hope that an agreement will be found, as was the case with the return of the Fagan fragment from Sicily. In this way, the British Museum can correct a 200 year old historical crime," Dr Christiane Tytgat, Chair of the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures (IARPS).
"The news of the talks is very gratifying for us who have been campaigning for the return of the Parthenon Marbles for almost 40 years. We call on the British Museum to become part of a genuine, sincere cultural diplomacy and to return the Marbles to where they belong," said British Committee for the Reunification of Sculptures (BCRPM) Vice-Chair Paul Cartledge, also Vice-Chair of the IARPS.
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