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	Press Office Washington, DC	04 July, 2009

The New Acropolis Museum was inaugurated June 20

The New Acropolis Museum was officially inaugurated on Saturday evening (20.6) during a ceremony that brought together Greek and foreign dignitaries, boosting hopes that the purpose-built museum's opening will mark a "reverse countdown" towards the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles. "Today, the most important sculptures of the Parthenon can be viewed together. Some are missing. It is time to heal the wounds of the monument with the return of the marbles where they belong" said Hellenic Republic President Karolos Papoulias in his address at the opening ceremony.

The New Acropolis Museum is a $180 million purpose built museum by architects Bernard Tschumi and Michalis Fotiades to house the archaeological findings related to the Acropolis Hill. The museum’s crown jewel is the Parthenon gallery, where the entire frieze is exhibited in the same order and with the same directional orientation as when it adorned the monument.

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The informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers on the Greek island of Corfu concluded June 28 with the launch of the "Corfu Process" to tackle European security challenges with concrete steps to restore confidence and prepare the ground for the ministers' next meeting in Athens in December.

Twenty-nine foreign ministers of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) also gathered on Corfu on June 27 - the first high-level meeting between the two sides since the crisis in Georgia, last summer- to review the current state of relations and discuss the way forward for the Council. The ministers agreed to open the door for renewing military cooperation in the framework of the NRC.

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