British PM’s snub ‘disrespectful’ to Greece, says gov’t spokesman

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to cancel a meeting with his Greek counterpart in London just hours before Kyriakos Mitsotakis was expected at 10 Downing Street, is "unprecedented" and "disrespectful," the government spokesman in Athens said on Tuesday.

"It is not something that is done. We are looking for a precedent and cannot find one," Pavlos Marinakis told Skai TV, after Mitsotakis was informed on Monday evening that his meeting with Sunak on Tuesday was being called off, adding that the move was "not only disrespectful to the Greek prime minister but also to the Greek people."

"We are assuming the obvious, that he [Sunak] was annoyed by comments reiterating the country's fixed position on the return of the Parthenon Sculptures," Marinakis said, referring to an interview Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave to the BBC on Sunday, where he repeated...