Sunak cancels Greek PM meeting in Parthenon Sculptures row
www.bbc.com
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who wants the Parthenon Sculptures returned, says he is "deeply disappointed".
  • rainynight65@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So, a modicum of looking into the background of this renders the following:

    • These statues were removed from Greece by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s, while Greece was under Ottoman occupation
    • The legality and legitimacy of these removals is, at the very least, questionable
    • No watertight evidence exists to corroborate the claim of Lord Elgin that he had official permission
    • Greece has been repeatedly requesting a return of these statues since 1835
    • In 2021 UNESCO concluded that the UK government had an obligation to return these statues
    • Negotiations between Greece and the UK are ongoing

    Sorry, the only person who has squandered anything here is Rishi Sunak.

    • letsgocrazy@lemm.eeEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      So this is your first time looking into this topic, and yet you feel confident to give out a strong opinion and feel smug about it?

      Guess what you didn’t do and modicum or research into? All the other more important topics.