, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The latest meeting between Mitsotakis and Osborne was last week and insiders claim negotiations are at an"advanced stage."
Greece has long maintained that the marbles were stolen and have campaigned for their repatriation. On the other hand, the British Museum, alongside the U.K. government, has defended its right to possess and display them. At issue are the actions of Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 19th century. Having been granted a permit, Elgin removed the sculptures and later sold them to the British government in 1816. were investigated by a Parliamentary Select Committee in 1816 and found to be entirely legal, prior to the sculptures entering the collection of the British Museum by Act of Parliament.
The Greek government made its first official request decades ago, but for the first time in many years, the reunification of the Parthenon marbles in Athens' specially designed Acropolis Museum looks like a real possibility. At an event at the London School of Economics last week, Mitsotakis explained that progress was being made toward a"win-win solution" for the two sides."I do sense the momentum," Mitsotakis added.
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