Medina hopes for international law in the case of the Scythian gold
The head of the Ministry of culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky said that the court is obliged to follow international law, examining the question of ownership of the collection of Scythian gold, taken from the Crimean museums.
"We hope that the European court will be guided by international law," said Medinsky correspondents.
"crystal clear, without participating in this process in any way, we can only state that the removal of cultural property from the Museum in terms of recognized international law of the unity and indivisibility of the actual Museum Fund - in all countries is assumed equal to such information, the law - we went straight during the Second world war. Presumably then took the redistribution of ownership of Museum values. Well, Napoleon was carrying on, was carried from Italy everything we could, " added the Minister of culture.
The collection of Scythian gold, about 2 thousand 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. Four 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.
first own written response was provided by the Ukrainian side. The reaction of the Crimean Museum and Allard Pierson Museum (the Netherlands) had to follow until 12 August. However, in its absence, the Court set a new deadline of September 23.