[CPProt.net] Italy 'Cautiously Optimistic' It Will Reach Pact With Met

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January 12, 2006 Edition > Section:  New York

Italy 'Cautiously Optimistic' It Will Reach Pact With Met

By RUSSELL BERMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 12, 2006
A D V E R T I S E M E N T

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Italian officials have sent the Metropolitan Museum of Art a formal 
proposal for an agreement on disputed pieces in the museum's 
collection, the Italian cultural minister said yesterday. Italy's 
culture minister, Rocco Buttiglione, said he was "cautiously 
optimistic" that a pact would be reached soon.

The museum said it has yet to receive the proposal, which Mr. 
Buttiglione said was sent earlier this week. But according to Mr. 
Buttiglione, the proposal follows a framework developed at a November 
meeting in Rome between the minister and the director of the Met, 
Philippe de Montebello.

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http://www.nysun.com/article/25732