Sending a global and powerful message in support of the repatriation of cultural property—and demonstrating in practice that the claim for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from London is not a one-sided demand—the Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, handed over to the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Greece, Omar Amer Youssef, six Egyptian figurines. These had been discovered in Athens and were documented as having been the result of illegal trafficking from Egypt.