Rejected petition Return the remains of the statue of Anahit to Armenia

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We ask the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to advise the British Museum to return the remaining fragments of the statue of Anahit, the Armenian Goddess of fertility (taken from Turkish-occupied Armenia in 1878) to the care of the Armenian Museum of History, Yerevan

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This is a matter for the British Museum.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 25 February 2012
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