In the Parliament the issue of the return of the stolen relics from Bulgaria – What Lina Mendoni said about the Churchtranslated

Report office ope.gr The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, attributed "ignorance" and "superficiality" to the opposition, regarding her criticism of the Athens-Sofia Memorandum of Understanding "for the mutual "deposit" of relics of historical value". In the context of the discussion of the Greco-Serbian Agreement for the protection of cultural property, Ms. Mendoni responded to the criticism that there are thousands of objects that were looted in war conditions and remain in Bulgaria, saying that (the opposition) "does not take into account the positive aspects of what has been produced. He ignores this and ostentatiously ignores it."

"It is evident that this whole story has either not been understood or you have not bothered to read it. And I can understand this for some parties, but not for parties that have governed.. [. . .] Do you know when this story started being discussed? And who discussed it? It began to be discussed since 1923, when, in a sense, the Treaty of Neighbors was satisfied. When George Sotiriou, an eminent Byzantine scholar, with the ambassador Raphael, went to Bulgaria and took what the Bulgarians gave him, namely 259 manuscripts, 62 objects, as well as...