After all, this year marks the 200th anniversary of GreeceвЂ™s war of independence.

вЂњThe UK should move to a bona fide dialogue with Greece. Addressing Unesco late on Friday, he said there was вЂњno better time than nowвЂќ to return the antiquities, long seen as the most significant link, symbolically, between the modern Greeks and their ancestors. Within weeks of his centre-right government winning office, the politician told the Observer he was prepared to swap priceless artefacts that had never before left Greece in return for the marbles being brought back in time for the nationвЂ™s bicentennial independence celebrations this year. Other parts of the 115-block artwork are in museums across Europe.ДЇew Greek leaders have given such priority to the sculpturesвЂ™ repatriation as Mitsotakis, who has described the UKвЂ™s refusal to engage in talks as a вЂњlosing battleвЂќ. Sawn off from the Parthenon in 1802 on the order of Lord Elgin, BritainвЂ™s then ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, about 80 metres of the monumental frieze is exhibited in London 50 metres in Athens. The Acropolis Museum, which was purpose-built to house the classical carvings at the foot of the monument, reopened in May. Ongoing maintenance work at the British Museum has, with the coronavirus outbreak, prevented the pieces from being publicly viewed for almost a year.

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