“What the Goths did not do, the Scots did”

Lina Mendoni gave a harsh response to her British counterpart, who, in an interview with the Times, made an unprecedented claim, an incredible statement about the Parthenon Sculptures, wondering if they “would have survived.” enraged Nazis in Athens During world war II “.

In a statement, the Minister of Culture notes that “yesterday’s statements by British Minister of Culture O. Dowden suggest that quiver with arguments, which supposedly justify the stay of the Parthenon Sculptures in London, has been emptied».

The statement of the Minister of Culture in detail:

The statements of the British Minister of Culture O. Dowden indicate yesterday that the quiver with the arguments, which supposedly justify the stay of the Parthenon Sculptures in London, has been emptied. O. Dowden, without having anything else to say, reiterates the argument of the phenomenon of the so-called “mass return of antiquities” from museums around the world to their countries of origin. An argument that does not exist, since there is currently only one request pending before the Special Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO: Greece’s request for the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures, filed in 1984. So where are the massive demands from the Member States?

The British Culture Minister is trying to demean the value of the Parthenon’s unique architectural sculptures by comparing the Greek request with other claims. Greece claims only the dismembered forms of the frieze, the metopes and pediments of the monument-symbol of Western civilization, which were forcibly removed from the monument and the birthplace. Greece claims only the Parthenon sculptures, in order to gather all its sculptural decoration and restore the integrity of this outstanding monument.

Regarding the argument of the alleged rescue of the Sculptures by Elgin, since they could have been destroyed by others had they not been stolen by the Lord, we will remind Mr. Dowden of what a compatriot carved on the Acropolis at the time of the looting. of the Parthenon “Bear with what he did, what he did to Scott» (what the Goths did not do, the Scots did) …

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