“With feelings of sincere emotion and great honour, I declare the beginning of this so important international conference, which has as its theme the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. My feelings are justified by the fact that the international seminar is part of a great and just struggle with a global dimension, namely the struggle for the restoration of what is undoubtedly a most emblematic World Heritage Monument, the Parthenon. And this struggle concerns not only Greece and its historical and cultural heritage, but also culture in general, given that its result will be a real confirmation of the notion of culture as a supreme achievement of human intellect,” President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos said on Monday, declaring the opening of the International Workshop entitled “Reunification of the Parthenon sculptures,” which is being held in the auditorium of the Acropolis Museum, according to ANA.
“It is universally ackowledged that these Sculptures belong rightfully and culturally to the Parthenon and its Monuments,” Pavlopoulos said, adding: “This is because without these Sculptures the Parthenon, deeply hurt by an act of vandalism and concealed for over of two centuries under a guise of supposed ‘love of antiquity’, which directly harms World Cultural Heritage, cannot symbolise and, at the same time, emanate to humankind its eternal and unique cultural.
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