“The advantage of the Parthenon project is that it combines the real with the essential. For the first time, the prospects for the return of the Marbles are clearing up, and this is especially encouraging.” says “K” Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Athens Nikos X. Alivisatos.

The conversation followed his announcement that he would join the advisory board of the Parthenon Project, a pro-reunification organization. Sculptors of the Parthenon in Greece. Recently, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oxford, Stathis Kalivas, joined the distinguished members of the same council.

Mr. Alivisatos has been following the issue of negotiations on Greek antiquities since the 80s, when the issue was raised by the then Minister of Culture Melina Merkouris, as well as at various scientific conferences. However, he believes that the Greek campaign now has a negotiating advantage “until we act like we did with the Cyprus issue and see it as a series of missed opportunities,” he stresses.

The news that a prominent lawyer had joined the committee to help “reach an agreement within the current legal framework” came shortly after the Parthenon Project announced its ambitious “cultural cooperation agreement” that would allow the return of Greek of antiquity, on the one hand, without touching upon their ownership, and on the other hand, including their exchange with other Greek works of art, which will be presented at periodic exhibitions in London.