Mitrofanova: UNESCO can not help in the situation with the Scythian gold
UNESCO can help in dealing with the situation surrounding the collection of Scythian gold, taken from the museums of the Crimea on Exhibit in the Netherlands, said Russia's permanent representative at the organization Eleonora Mitrofanova.
The collection of Scythian gold, more than 1,000 artifacts, was removed from the Crimean museums on Exhibition "Crimea: gold And secrets of the Black sea" in the archaeological Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam in early February 2014, even before the Crimea was reunited With Russia. Since then the parties have the opportunity to decide whom to return the artifacts. At the end of November, it was announced that four of the Crimean Museum filed in the court of Amsterdam collective action against the Allard Pierson Museum, which demanded to fulfill contractual obligations And to return a collection of Scythian gold from the Netherlands to Crimea.
"Unfortunately, UNESCO's got nothing to do can help. We checked all the possible tools that UNESCO developed that somehow you could help in this context. Absolutely no, it private matter. There the difficulty is that the Ukrainian Ministry of culture was the guarantor. Now here, apparently, it will be decided in a tripartite manner. And I think now Scythian gold will settle in the Netherlands, because this question will be very long, "said Mitrofanov at a press conference in video format, organized by MIA" Russia today ".
Crimea And Sevastopol became the Russian regions after the 16 March 2014 referendum in which an overwhelming number of voters (96, 77%) with a turnout of 83, 1% were in favor of reunification With Russia.
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