Negotiations on the possible return of the Parthenon marbles from the British Museum to Greece are not moving fast enough, the Greek Prime Minister said before a meeting with Rishi Sunak, The Guardian writes on November 26.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis compared the British Museum’s ownership of the sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, to a Mona Lisa painting cut in half, saying it was not a question of ownership but of “reunification”.
“We have not made as much progress in the negotiations as we would like. I am a patient man and we have waited for hundreds of years and I will persist in these discussions. he said on the BBC Sunday Show with Laura Kuenssberg. — In my opinion, this is not a question of ownership, but rather a reunification argument: where can we best appreciate what is essentially a monument?”
“It’s as if I told you that you cut the Mona Lisa in half and half will be in the Louvre and the other half in the British Museum. Do you think your viewers will appreciate the beauty of the painting in this form? far? Well, that’s exactly what happened with the Parthenon sculptures.”he added.
Athens has long campaigned for the return of the marbles stolen from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which then ruled Greece, in the early 19th century.
Greece built the Acropolis Museum in 2009 to house the country’s remaining sculptures, as well as other artifacts, and it is there that Mitsotakis wants the sculptures returned.
“We believe that the sculptures belong to Greece and that they were actually stolenMitsotakis said. — I think the answer is very clear. They are best seen in the Acropolis Museum, a modern museum built for this purpose.”
Mitsotakis said he would raise the issue with Sunak on Tuesday, November 28, the day after meeting Labor leader Keir Starmer.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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