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WILL ARMENIAN MINISTER BRING GODDESS ANAHIT'S STATUE HOME? - NEWSPAPER
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February 15, 2012 | 10:18
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan
seems to be determined to bring to Armenia the pagan goddess Anahit's
bronze head from the British Museum in London, Haykakan Zhamanak
daily writes.
"The Minister expressed such wish in his Facebook account. He
proposed to his [Facebook] friends to join him and to petition-with
corresponding signatures under a joint text-to the Great Britain's
Embassy in Armenia, asking that the head and the hands of Goddess
Anahit's statue be returned to Armenia. Through his spokesperson,
Ashotyan informed that his call had received a huge response,
especially from the youth and university students. And they launched
a signature campaign, and Minister Armen Ashotyan will likewise
join them at the end [of the campaign, and they will petition to
Great Britain's Embassy. The latter responded to Ashotyan's call,
likewise on its Facebook account. Ambassador Cathy Leach wrote:
"For long years the British Museum has provided its unique items for
worldwide display. It will be marvelous if such exchange program
be carried out between the British Museum and the State Museum of
History of Armenia." In this way the Ambassador alluded not to the
possibility of returning of the statue, but, instead, to its sending
for a temporary display," Haykakan Zhamanak writes.
news.am
February 15, 2012 | 10:18
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan
seems to be determined to bring to Armenia the pagan goddess Anahit's
bronze head from the British Museum in London, Haykakan Zhamanak
daily writes.
"The Minister expressed such wish in his Facebook account. He
proposed to his [Facebook] friends to join him and to petition-with
corresponding signatures under a joint text-to the Great Britain's
Embassy in Armenia, asking that the head and the hands of Goddess
Anahit's statue be returned to Armenia. Through his spokesperson,
Ashotyan informed that his call had received a huge response,
especially from the youth and university students. And they launched
a signature campaign, and Minister Armen Ashotyan will likewise
join them at the end [of the campaign, and they will petition to
Great Britain's Embassy. The latter responded to Ashotyan's call,
likewise on its Facebook account. Ambassador Cathy Leach wrote:
"For long years the British Museum has provided its unique items for
worldwide display. It will be marvelous if such exchange program
be carried out between the British Museum and the State Museum of
History of Armenia." In this way the Ambassador alluded not to the
possibility of returning of the statue, but, instead, to its sending
for a temporary display," Haykakan Zhamanak writes.