VIENNA : A Vienna museum is in talks aimed at lending two marble pieces of the Parthenon to Greece, Austria's foreign minister said on Tuesday, a development his Greek counterpart said he hoped would help in talks with Britain over its much larger hoard.
"I am very pleased that technical discussions are taking place between the Kunsthistorische Museum and the Acropolis Museum on mutual loans of the Parthenon frieze," Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told a news conference with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias. Dendias said the talks were important in the context of discussions about bigger collections, particularly that the British Museum in London.
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