https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67549044
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A diplomatic row has broken out between the British and Greek governments over the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.
The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to meet Rishi Sunak in London, but No 10 cancelled the meeting at the last minute.
He told reporters he was "deeply disappointed by the abrupt cancellation" of the meeting.
Mr Mitsotakis rejected an alternative meeting with the deputy prime minister.
The cancellation came a day after Mr Mitsotakis told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that the marbles should be returned, as having some of the artefacts in London and the rest in Athens was like cutting the Mona Lisa in half.
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I don't understand why Sunak pulls these stunts when his original pitch was that he was the grown-up who would make 'long-term decisions'.
It comes across as childish and petty. We all know the Greeks want the Elgin Marbles back so to cancel a meeting because they expressed the same position they've expressed many times before is just idiotic.
He clearly is doing it to provoke a positive reaction from voters that he is sticking up for the country but who really cares about this? It just looks weird.