Argentina will return more than 4,000 artifacts Peru and Ecuador
This has made an official statement the President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
the Argentine Government intends to return more than 4 000 artifacts Ecuador and Peru. This has made an official statement the President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner). According to her, these items were once stolen and now will return to full vladelcam@
"We are doing something special, really special," said Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the ceremony at the National Museum of fine arts in Buenos Aires. The President urged other countries to follow the example Argentina@
"It is an honor and a great pleasure to contribute to the revival of the cultural heritage of countries such as Ecuador and Peru, in a world where such cultural wealth is often selected, — the President said. — The same things from Greece, Syria, Egypt, Asia and even Latin America are stored in the great museums of the world treasures, but they do not return to their homeland".
This statement was made at a ceremony attended by the ambassadors of Ecuador and Peru. Cristina fernández de Kirchner announced that Argentina became the first country in South America that has made such a step. What artifacts will be returned, not the President utochnila@
last year Yale University returned dozens of artifacts from the Inca civilization. University after much debate in 2011 reached agreement on the return of thousands of subjects of the Inca civilization, taken from Machu Picchu in 1912 by the American archaeologist Hiram a Bingham (Hiram Bingham).
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