Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Greece pins hopes for Parthenon Sculptures on UN

Lawyer Amal Clooney, center, is guided by the Director of the Acropolis museum Dimitris Pantermalis, left, during a visit at the Parthenon hall inside the Acropolis museum in Athens Wednesday Oct. 15, 2014. Lawyers Geoffrey Robertson, Norman Palmer and Amal Clooney arrived Monday to Greece on a four-day visit to meet government officials, including Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, and advise on Greece's quest to have the Parthenon Marbles returned to Athens. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, Pool) ATHENS, Greece (AP) — After more than a century of fruitless lobbying, Greece is now pinning its hopes of reclaiming the 5th-century B.C. Parthenon Sculptures from Britain on a mediation effort backed by the U.N. cultural agency.








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