Everyone is now looking critically at the attitude of the neighboring country in a series of issues, from the provocative statements against Greece, its attitude in Libya, to the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, notes a top diplomatic source.
“Today everyone understands our partners that the Turkey is problem“, noted a top diplomatic source, pointing out that everyone is now looking critically at the neighboring country’s stance on a number of issues, from the provocative statements against Greece, its stance on Libya, to the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO.
He also underlined that in this context the attitude of the USA towards Turkey should be analyzed, while he reminded that Athens had sufficiently informed the USA about the Greek positions in the whole range of relations with Ankara.
“The illegal and non-existent Turkish-Libyan memorandum must get out of the way”, the same source pointed out and added that the position of Europe, America, Egypt and other partners in this specific move by Turkey was clear from the beginning.
With reference to Greek-Albanian relations, he underlined that there has been significant progress in the discussions on referring the delimitation of the EEZ to The Hague, adding, however, that “there will hardly be any developments before the elections”. It is important, as they clarified, that Albania knows today that its future lies in its European perspective.
On February 21, Mr US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will probably pay a visit to Athenathe same sources said.
Regarding the next contacts of Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, next week after the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, he will go to South Africa and Mozambique.
The same source even emphasized the special importance of contacts with Africa regarding the issue of the UN Security Council, as it is important for Greece and Europe to have contacts with its non-permanent members as well.
New contacts with Egypt and Israel are expected in the coming weeks, while in the coming months Mr. Dendias will go to South America and India.
At the same time, with regard to the government’s legislative initiative that attempts to put a “brake” on any entry into Parliament of the party founded by Ilias Kasidiaris, associates of Mr. Dendias underlined his firm position that the “unified stance of of the political world against the neo-Nazi formations” and emphasized that the descent of this particular party cannot be tolerated, after the condemnation of Golden Dawn, of which Ilias Kasidiaris was a member of parliament.
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