Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni will announce, at a press conference, the details of what has been reached by the experts of the Arab Contractors Company on an adequate way to transfer the statue of Ramses II from its current site at Ramses Square to the new Egyptian Museum at Al-Haram after one-year deliberate studies.

Meantime, the Supreme Council of Antiquities SCA Secretary- General Zahi Hawass said that the foreign expertise was used only for transferring the statue according to the terms of a tender declared by the SCA after the process of restoration was carried out by the Egyptian company.

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, January 25, 2005.