Swiss Events For The Return of Parthenon Marbles

Parthenon sculptures have to be returned to Greece, noted Professor Dusan Sidjanski, the president of the Swiss Committee for the Return of Parthenon Marbles, during an event that was held at the University of Zurich earlier this week. At the event, titled “Europe and the Parthenon Marbles-Common Cause”, Professor Sidjanski referred to the Swiss Committee’ opposition to the legal claim of the return of the Parthenon sculptures, stressing that it is a European issue which must be resolved through dialogue at the European institutions’ level as well as through informing the public, especially in Britain.

The event was attended by scientists, students and members of various Greek communities as well as consul general Angelos Ipsilantis.

Sidjanski said that the demand for the return of the Parthenon Marbles is a unique case, which concerns the integrity of a symbolic monument which has been ravaged.

At a similar event, which took place at the University of Geneva, speakers referred to the peculiarity of the request for the return of the Parthenon Marbles, as well as to the ways of resolving cultural differences. At the same time they supported the proposal of the Swiss Committee for finding a mutually acceptable solution to the issue as well as to the disadvantages of legal resolution of cultural differences.

The event was attended by well known scholars, scientists and archaeologists and even Greek ambassador Charalambos Manessis.