“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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FM Dendias: Greece asked The Hague prosecutor to investigate crimes in Mariupol
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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“EastMed is alive and kicking,” says Greek FM Dendias
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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FM Dendias to raise the issue of ethnic Greeks in Ukraine at EU FMs emergency meeting
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday that he will be raising Greece’s concerns for the safety of the ethnic Greek minority in Ukraine at an emergency meeting of EU members states’ foreign ministers. The Greek community in Ukraine numbers some 150,000 people, Dendias said. End of January Dendias visited …
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“A conflict in Ukraine will have no winners,” Greek FM Dendias tells Russian counterpart Lavrov
“A conflict in Ukraine will have no winner. We would all lose out,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Moscow on Friday. The Russian FM blamed the NATO for the latest developments in Ukraine, citing violations of OSCE agreements. “We have …
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Heated debate between Greek FM & Turkish envoy in Oslo during lecture at NUPI (video)
A heated debate between Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Turkey’s ambassador to Norway, Fazli Çorman took place in front of a stunned audience on Wednesday during a lecture by the Greek FM at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo. During his official visit to Oslo, Dendias …
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Greek FM visits OSCE Mission in Ukraine, meets with ethnic Greek communities
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in the city of Mariupol (Marioupolis) and met also with ethnic Greek communities in the city. Dendias tweeted that he was “briefed on the security situation on the ground and …
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Greece and Italy complete implementation of maritime borders agreement
Greece and Italy completed on Monday the approval of a maritime borders agreement delimiting an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between the two countries. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio met in Rome on Monday to exchange the so-called “instruments of ratification’, a procedure whereby …
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Greece and UK sign Memorandum on Strategic Bilateral Framework
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Strategic Bilateral Framework between Greece and the United Kingdom in London on Monday. No details of the MoU were given to the press other than the signed agreement enables individual agreements to be reached …
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Greece and US sign the renewal of Mutual Defense & Cooperation Agreement (MDCA)
Greek Foreign Ministry Nikos Dendias and US State Secretary Antony Blinken signed the five-year upgraded renewal of the Mutual Defense and Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) between Greece and USA on Thursday. The two ministers signed the MDCA in a special ceremony at the Benjamin Franklin diplomatic reception room in the Harry …
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Greek FM delivers 100,000 vaccines against Covid-19 to Tunisia
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias delivered 100,000 vaccines against Covid-18 to Tunisia the country he visited on Tuesday. During his meeting with Tunisian counterpart Othman Jerandi, said Dendias said: “It is a great pleasure to be in Tunis today, more so as I have brought with me 100,000 vaccines, which I …
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“Days of Ottoman Empire are over,” Greek FM tells Turkey
“The days of the Ottoman Empire are over,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday and urged Turkey to comply with the international law. “Turkey must finally understand that it can no longer behave as if we are in the 18th or 19th century,” Dendias said after a briefing …
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“No space for relations improvement with Turkey,” says Greek FM Dendias
“There is no space for improvement of relations between Greece and Turkey or Turkey and the European Union if it continues unlawful conduct in Cyprus,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday after a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. Dendias rushed to the island state after Turkey announced …
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Greece supports Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity
Greece supports Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, said Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev on Monday. Dendias was attending the three-day “Ukraine.30 Forum”, which on its opening day looked into the “Strategic mission of Ukraine: …
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Greece doesn’t have illusions about its relations with Turkey, says FM Dendias
“Greece does not have illusions about its relations with Turkey,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Sunday. In an interview with newspaper Real News, he pointed out that both the prime minister’s meeting with the Turkish president and his own contacts with his Turkish counterpart allowed “the ice to break”, …
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Maritime boundaries agreement with Turkey is “invalid” says Saleh in Athens
“All foreign forces and mercenaries must leave the territory of Libya” was sent on Friday during the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Libya, Aguila Saleh said in a joint message on Friday. “What is needed – and you represent it in …
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Greece expressed dissatisfaction to Germany over its exclusion from Libya Conference
Greece has expressed its strong dissatisfaction that Germany excluded Athens form the Berlin Conference on Libya. “We are extremely dissatisfied with the fact that Germany, insisting on a tactic, did not invite us to the Berlin Conference this time as well”, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday. He underlined …
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Greek FM condemns Hamas, says “Israel has right to self-defense”
“I condemn in the clearest way the firing of thousands of rockets by Hamas against Israel,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told reporters on Tuesday following meetings with officials of the Israeli government and the Palestinian authority. He reiterated Greece’s position that “Israel, like every country in the world, has …
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Greece in mediator role between Israelis and Palestinians?
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday and Egypt on Thursday, a foreign ministry announcement said on Monday. According to media, Greece aims to assume a mediator role between Israelis and Palestinians. Dendias will hold meetings with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem …
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Turkish FM has accepted invitation to visit Athens, says Greek FM Dendias
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has accepted an invitation by his Greek counterpart to visit Athens, Nikos Dendias said at the Delphi Economic Forum VI in Athens on Friday, though no specific date has been agreed on. “Of course I will meet Cavusoglu. I have invited him to Greece and …
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