PRESS - RELEASE
          EGYPT SUPPORTS ETHIOPIA'S DEMAND FOR
               THE RETURN OF AXUM OBELISK

      THE EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, IN REACTION
TO THE NOBLE CAUSE I.E THE MOVEMENT FOR THE RETURN OF
THE AXUM OBELISK III, LOOTED BY THE ITALIAN FASCIST
DICTATOR MOUSSOLINI IN 1937, HAS EXPRESSED FULL SUPPORT
TO THE DEMAND OF THE ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT FOR THE OBELISK'S
RETURN TO ITS RIGHTFUL OV{NERS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE 20th SESSION OF UNESCO, 1978.

     THE DISTINGUISHED EGYPTIAN BODY OF ANTIQUITES, DEEPLY
CONSCIOUS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF AFRICA'S HERITAGE AND THE
STRUGGLE FOR ITS PRESERVATION, HAS ENDORSED AND SUPPORTED
THE PETITION FOR THE RETURN OF THIS MONUMENT WHICH IS
IMPORTANT NOT ONLY FOR ETHIOPIA BUT ALSO AS A PART OF THE
HERITAGE OF THE WHOLE AFRICAN CONEINENT.

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