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The Committee for Division of the former republic of Yugoslavia diplomatic estates in the Macedonian Foreign Ministry will draw lists with Macedonian works of art, which are outside Macedonian borders, Utrinski Vesnik writes today.
The wide interest in the cultural heritage, legally or illegally going out of Macedonia, continues, despite the growing number of treasure-hunters. So far there is not an initiative to bring national trasures, taken out, back to Macedonia. Pasko Kuzman, Director of the Cultural Heritage Office, talks about the regaining possession of cultural heritage items as something impossible.

“Even on a large scale level items are not being returned. Half of Egypt is in the Louvre Museum, and it is not difficult to guess whether museums would be willing to give items back. Only though exchange we can gain possession of part of the items. It is not possible to ask for giving us back items, taken out from Macedonia, in times when we were not as a country; this is the case with the gold masks from Trebnishte in Bulgaria and Serbia,” Pasko Kuzman says.

MD: There are many Macedonian treasures abroad. We do need them back! But we can understand that there are some more important things for Macedonia at the moment too. If Macedonia is a stable country, the treasures will return

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Posted by Macedonia Daily on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 12:03 am | Permalink