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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Mitsotakis to visit ethnic Greeks minority in south Albania; FM in Tirana
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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FM Dendias: “Greece will never cease to claim German WWII reparations”
“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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Greek FM Dendias slams Turkey’s missiles strike threat
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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Wiretapping: FM Dendias remains -still- loyal to PM Mitsotakis
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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Erdogan uses UN General Assembly for inflammatory attacks against Greece
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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FM Dendias: Turkey’s statements & threats have moved to unprecedented level
“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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Greece tells Erdogan: “We completely reject Neo-Ottoman bullies”
“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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Greece FM sends letters to UN, NATO over absurd Turkish claims
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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FM Dendias raises “German WWII reparations, halt submarines sales to Turkey” to counterpart Baerbock
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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FM Dendias: “Upgrade of Turkish arsenal by USA is a problem for Greece”
“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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