May 5, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Hardly two week before the elections in Greece, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that he would sign an agreement that would resolve the Greek-Turkish dispute. In an interview with news website in.gr, Dendias reiterated the Greek position that there is one and only difference with Turkey, that of the continental …
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March 20, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Turkey will vote for Greece’s candidacy in the elections for the non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his counterpart, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Monday. In return, Athens will support the Turkish candidate for the position of general secretary of the …
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February 28, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias presented Greece’s candidature for the UN Human Rights Council in the period 2028-2030, saying its aim was to advance the Council’s vital work based on respect for International Law and especially the Charter of the United Nations. Addressing the 52nd Session of the Human Rights Council …
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February 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias went to a hospital emergencies after an extensive meeting with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken and joint statements on Tuesday morning. Dendias has symptoms of a severe cold and after the meeting with Blinken he was in a private clinic in Athens where he underwent …
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February 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece-US relations are strategic and have reached the highest level, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday during joint statements with his US counterpart Anthony Blinken, immediately after the launch of the 4th Greece-US Strategic Dialogue. “The Strategic Dialogue concerns seven important areas. It is a tangible proof of the …
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February 20, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Greece short after 17:30 on Monday, for a two-day official visit to Athens. With a post on Twitter, Blinken hailed his “first visit to the birthplace of democracy. Kalispera Greece! This is my first visit to the birthplace of democracy as Secretary …
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February 12, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu fell in the arms of his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias upon the latter’s arrival in earthquake-stricken Turkey early Sunday morning. The two foreign ministers had a brief meeting in a lounge at the airport of Adana and then boarded helicopters bound for the earthquake-affected areas …
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December 29, 2022
Greece, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias suffered an incident of low blood-pressure, while he was attending the liturgy in a church of Mount Athos. Dendias was standing in the Holy Monastery of Xenophon short after 7 o’ clock Thursday morning when he felt dizzy and fainted thus falling to the floor and …
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December 21, 2022
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to carry out a planned visit to Himare, Livadhja and Dervician in southern Albania on Thursday, where he will have meetings with members and representatives of the Greek ethnic minority in the neighboring country, the prime minister’s press office said. The visit was originally scheduled …
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December 13, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“Greece will not stop demanding the payment of German war reparations,” Foreign Minister Nikos Denias said on Tuesday on the occasion of the anniversary of the Massacre of Kalavryta. In a post on Twitter, Dendias said: “Today we honor the victims of the Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupation forces, …
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December 12, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s foreign minister has lashed out at Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to strike Athens with ballistic missiles. “It is unacceptable and universally condemnable for threats of a missile attack against Greece to be made by an allied country, a NATO member,” Nikos Dendias said Monday, arriving …
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November 14, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said Monday that he is “fully satisfied” by the Prime Minister’s pledge to shed light on the wiretapping scandal, after two newspapers alleged he was among those targeted via phone malware. “I would also like to say that my cooperation with the Prime Minister is …
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September 21, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias responded to unprecedented attacks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who used the podium of the United Nations General Assembly to claim “Greece is turning the Aegean into a cemetery for migrants. “Greece is turning the Aegean into a cemetery for migrants,” said Erdogan in …
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September 20, 2022
Greece, Politics
“Turkey’s announcements are a clear, a present threat against Greece’s sovereignty,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday upon his arrival at the informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers during the 77th UN General Assembly High-Level Week, in New York. The Greek Foreign Minister said that he will inform his colleagues …
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September 6, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“It is unacceptable for Greece to be receiving threats that reach the point of disputing Greek sovereignty from a country that is an ally within NATO, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at noon on Tuesday as Ankara has increased his escalating hostile rhetoric and threats and thus via the president …
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September 5, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will send letters to all members of the UN Security Council and to the UN Secretary General, as well as the secretary general of NATO, in the wake of the unprecedented statements made by Turkish officials’ in recent days. The statements made by the Turkish …
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July 29, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias raised the issue of WWII reparations for the Nazi occupations of Greece and asked his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock to halt exports of submarines to Turkey. At a meeting of the two top diplomats in Athens on Friday morning and during joint statements, Dendias said …
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May 12, 2022
Greece, Politics
“The upgrade of Turkish arsenal by the USA is a problem,” Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told the Parliament on Thursday, during the debate on the Mutual Defense Agreement between Greece and the USA scheduled to be ratified today. In the shadow of the “rumored” decision of the Biden administration …
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April 17, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has said that he sent a letter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague asking for the investigation of crimes against the ethnic Greek community committed in Mariupol and two other villages in eastern Ukraine. In an interview with daily kathimerini, Dendias stressed that …
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April 10, 2022
Economy, FEATURED, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias rejected the idea that the EastMed gas pipeline is dead and claimed the project is “alive and kicking.” The Greek FM made this statement at the Delphi Economic Forum on Saturday and in response to a relevant statement by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs …
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