Tag Archives: FM

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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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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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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Libya has reacted to Greece’s decision to expand out seismic surveys for hydrocarbon south of Crete. The foreign minister of the Tripoli-based outgoing government accused Athens of exploiting the crisis in the North African country and imposing a fait accompli in defining the Libyan-Greek maritime borders. “Greece has conducted contracts …

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Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias expresses the belief that a solution to the Greek-Turkish dispute would be absolutely possible if Turkey accepted the International Law of the Sea and the related Convention (UNCLOS). In an interview with Kathimerini Sunday edition, Dendias said that “a solution, which would be absolutely possible to …

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“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’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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Ahead of her visit to Greece and Turkey, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock issued a statement describing Greece as “one of our closest partners in Europe” and Turkey just as “necessary partner.” The Green politician also emphasized the importance she attaches to keeping alive the memory of the atrocities committed …

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“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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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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Greece unequivocally condemns the Russian attack on Ukraine that threatens the stability in Europe, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement just hours after the sirens of war rang alarm after decades in the old continent. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired an emergency meeting of the National Foreign Affair and …

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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 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 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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Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said he is “pessimistic” regarding the possibility of resolving the decades-old Cyprus issue in an interview with financial newspaper Naftemporiki published on Monday. “Unfortunately, I am not optimistic about the prospect of resolving the Cyprus issue,” he was quoted as saying, responding to a question …

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu launched an unprecedented personal attack on his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias, calling him a traumatized crybaby with an “inferiority complex” in a TV interview. “They (Greece and its allies Cyprus, Egypt etc.) meet from time to time. Greece complains about Turkey at every meeting. (Dendias) …

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“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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“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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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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The Greek Foreign Ministry has sharply criticized Turkey for having withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women. He also pointed out that the EU’s foreign policy report on Turkey has omitted reference to important issues. In a tweet posted late on Sunday, Foreign Minister Nikos …

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