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Greece Protests 10-Month Turkish Military Exercise in Greek Airspace
The Greek Foreign Ministry sent out a notice to international bodies protesting Turkey's move to reserve a large part of Greek airspace for military maneuvers until the end of the year.
On Friday February 27, Turkey issued a notam requesting to...
Europe
Greek Foreign Minister Offers Help to Ukraine
On Thursday, February 19, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias visited Kiev, Ukraine to meet with the country’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin. Kotzias expressed his support towards Ukraine’s sovereignty, as well as the need to reinforce talks regarding the ceasefire...
Greece
Greek Foreign Minister: 'I'm Not a Russian Puppet'
European Union foreign ministers approved the extension of existing sanctions against Russia on Thursday, winning the support of the new leftist government of Greece, whose position had been in doubt.
The ministers agreed to extend sanctions imposed last year that...
Business
Focus: ‘Greece Incites France Αgainst Germany’
“Athens incites France to turn against Germany”
This is the title of an article that was published in the German magazine “Focus” regarding Greece. Focus along with other German media reproduced the statements that were made by the Greek Foreign...
Greece
Greece Won't Send Troops to Central African Republic
The Greek Foreign Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, made it crystal clear to his European partners that “Greek soldiers will not participate in any army operation that will take place in the territories of the Central African Republic”. The Member-States of...
Greek News
Greece and Egypt to Jointly Delineate Maritime Zones
Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos and his Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy Thursday agreed to create a bilateral committee aimed at delineating the two countries' maritime zones despite possible objections by "third countries" and pointed to the prospect of a...
Greek News
Azerbaijan, Greece Co-operate On Tourism
Seeing Azerbaijan conducting aggressive ad campaigns to lure tourists, Greece is planning to work together on tourism programs. That came as Greek Foreign Minister Avramopoulos went to Baku.
He said in an interview with the Azerbaijan Press Agency that one...
Europe
Greece-Turkey Meeting in Ankara
Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos arrived in Ankara on Friday for talks with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, who visited Athens last October.
The talks between the two men, as Kathimerini reports, are designed to prepare the ground for the...
Europe
Avramopoulos Meets with Russian Counterpart Lavrov
Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, who is attending a NATO Ministerial in Brussels, met this morning with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
During the meeting, the two Ministers reaffirmed the mutual will for the two countries’ relations to return to a...
Greece
Greek Foreign Minister's Communications with Turkish Counterpart Regarding Earthquake
Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis contacted his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, by telephone regarding the earthquake that struck this afternoon in Turkey’s Van province, causing extensive material damage and an as yet unknown number of deaths.
Mr. Lambrinidis expressed the deep...