L'UNESCO ha accettato nel 2014 di mediare tra la Grecia e il Regno Unito per risolvere la disputa sui Marmi di Elgin. ###>After gaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire, Greece began major projects for the restoration of the country's monuments, and has expressed its disapproval of Elgin's actions to remove the Marbles from the Acropolis and the Parthenon, which is regarded as one of the world's greatest cultural monuments.