根据希腊和保加利亚新签署的谅解备忘录，一位中世纪保加利亚沙皇的遗骸以及近50件宗教文物将于周二被移交给各自的国家。该谅解备忘录由希腊文化部长莉娜·门多尼（Lina Mendoni）和保加利亚文化部长埃夫蒂姆·米洛舍夫（Evtim Miloshev）共同签署。根据协议内容，保加利亚将把来自帕纳吉亚·埃科西福伊尼萨（Panagia Eikosiphoinissa）圣修道院、塞雷斯（Serres）的蒂米奥斯·普罗德罗莫斯（Timios Prodromos）圣修道院以及塞雷斯-尼格里蒂斯（Serres-Nigritis）大主教区的48件宗教文物归还给希腊。
The remains of a medieval Bulgarian tsar and nearly 50 religious Greek relics will be handed over to their respective nations under a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding between Greece and Bulgaria on Tuesday. The MoU was signed between Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni and Bulgarian Culture Minister Evtim Miloshev. As part of the agreement, Bulgaria will return 48 religious relics from the Holy Monastery of Panagia Eikosiphoinissa, the Holy Monastery of Timios Prodromos of Serres and the Holy Metropolis of Serres and Nigritis to Greece.
这些文物在第一次世界大战期间被转移到索菲亚（Sofia），此后一直保存在保加利亚国家历史博物馆中。归还后，这些文物将在拜占庭文化博物馆展出至11月5日，之后将被送回它们的原产地。
The relics were transferred to Sofia during WWI and have since been kept at the National History Museum of Bulgaria. Following their return, the 48 relics will displayed at the Museum of Byzantine Culture until November 5.
作为回报，希腊将把1965年在圣阿基利奥斯大教堂（Basilica of Saint Achillios）发现的这位中世纪保加利亚沙皇萨穆埃尔（Samuel，997-1014年在位）的遗骸归还给保加利亚。萨穆埃尔被视为保加利亚的民族英雄，因为他为保卫国家的独立与邻近的希腊语拜占庭帝国进行了斗争。除了萨穆埃尔的遗骸外，大教堂内另外两座石棺中发现的遗骸也将一并归还；据信这些遗骸属于萨穆埃尔的儿子加布里埃尔-拉多米尔（Gabriel-Radomir）——他在1014年10月至1015年8月或9月期间统治着保加利亚第一帝国——以及保加利亚王室的其他成员。这些遗骸此前一直保存在塞萨洛尼基（Thessaloniki）的拜占庭文化博物馆中。
Afterwards, they will be returned to their place of origin. In turn, Greece will hand over the remains of the medieval Bulgarian tsar, Samuel (997-1014), found in the Basilica of Saint Achillios in 1965. Samuel, or Samuil, reigned from 997 to 1014 during the First Bulgarian Empire and is deemed a national hero by Bulgarians for struggling to preserve his country's independence from the neighboring, Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire. Alongside Samuel's remains, those found in two other sarcophagi within the basilica will also be returned.
保加利亚总理鲁门·拉德夫（Rumen Radev）将这项协议称为“历史性协议”，并表示萨穆埃尔遗骸的归还结束了索菲亚长达六十年的努力。拉德夫在保加利亚文化部发布的声明中表示：“我们获得了这一历史性的荣誉。”
The additional remains are believed to belong to Tsar Gabriel-Radomir, Samuel's son who ruled the First Empire of Bulgaria between October 1014 to August or September 1015, and other members of the Bulgarian royal family. The remains have recently been kept at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki.A 'historic' agreement between Greece, BulgariaBulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev described the accord as a "historic agreement" and said the handover of Samuel's remains ended six decades of efforts by Sofia to bring them home after their discovery in Greece."
“我想向友好希腊总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯表达我最深切的感谢，感谢他的政治家远见、政治勇气，以及将保加利亚和希腊联系得更为紧密的友谊。”拉德夫强调，沙皇的记忆“将两国团结在一起，而非分裂”。他补充道：“保加利亚和希腊共同加入欧盟，有助于两国更好地理解彼此的敏感问题。”“10月3日星期六中午12点30分，我邀请所有保加利亚人前往索非亚王子宫前的巴滕贝格广场，共同迎接遗骸并致敬这位伟大的保加利亚统治者。”
We have had the historic honor of achieving this," Radev said in a statement shared by the Bulgarian Culture Ministry. "I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Prime Minister of friendly Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for his statesmanlike vision, for his political courage and for the friendship that binds Bulgaria and Greece even more strongly." Radev emphasized that the memory of the tsar "unites, not divides," the two countries today." The joint membership of Bulgaria and Greece in the European Union helps each of the two countries to better understand the sensitivity of the other," he added.
双方同意继续就鉴定和纳入当前协议未涵盖的、双方共同关注的历史文物进行谈判。正式移交仪式将于10月3日在塞萨洛尼基的拜占庭文化博物馆举行。希腊总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯将主持该仪式，拉德夫将出席。路透社对本报道亦有贡献。
“On Saturday, October 3, at 12:30 p.m., I invite all Bulgarians to Battenberg Square in front of the Prince's Palace in Sofia to welcome the mortal remains together and pay homage to the great Bulgarian ruler." The two sides agreed to continue negotiations regarding the identification and inclusion of historical artifacts of mutual interest that were not covered by the current agreement. The official handover ceremony will take place on October 3, at the the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. It will be hosted by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and attended by Radev.