Sunday, May 24, 2009

In London, with a monument to Ronald Reagan.

Monument 40 th U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who died in summer 2004, will be installed in front of U.S. Embassy in London, wrote on Sunday The Mail on Sunday.
Westminster local council decided not to follow conventional rules of installation sites, which since the death of a historical figure should be at least ten years. As explained by the representative council, the exclusion was done because when Reagan among the United States and Britain established a "special relationship" and "undeniable cultural and historical ties."
Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy to establish the idea of a monument to Reagan reacted cool. "We are pleased that our presidents are awarded this honor, but it was not a U.S. government initiative," - said the representative of the diplomatic mission. Answering the question whether American diplomats take a monument when moving from Grosvenor Square to a new building in the area Nayn-Elmz, interlocutor newspaper said: "It's not our statue."
Reagan will be a monument to American sculptor hour Feyganom (Chas Fagan). Trehmetrovuyu bronze sculpture installed on limestone pedestal in front of a monument to 34 th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. The project cost is estimated at between 100 and 200 thousand pounds, adds The Mail on Sunday.

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