The President of Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos in a meeting with professors Louis Godart and Dusan Sidjanski on Tuesday at Maximos Mansion stressed the need the Parthenon Marbles to be returned to Greece.

He highlighted that the marbles belong to a unique monument and have no place anywhere else underlining that without these marbles, the Parthenon cannot be what it could be and should be in order to teach the visitor, to teach what democracy, freedom and humanity mean.

Mr. Pavlopoulos replying to statements that if the Parthenon Marbles return to Greece, there will be requests for other monuments also to return to their homeland, he stated that allegation was not correct, adding that the Parthenon presents a uniqueness for all mankind.

As he noted, it is “the uniqueness of the Greek culture, especially in the 5th century BC, which is not something that Greeks have said, but you as scientists have also claimed.”