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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent two identical messages to the UN Security Council and the United Nations Secretary-General, protesting what he described as a Turkish escalation against his country, at a time when Ankara announced that Athens was it had refused to negotiate on the crisis in the eastern Mediterranean and did not respond to any initiative in this regard.
Mitsotakis stipulated to halt what he described as Turkish provocative actions for the sake of dialogue, and said his country remains committed to the principles of peaceful dispute settlement and is ready to resume its dialogue with Turkey from the point where it stopped in March. of 2016.
He said this requires Turkey to be prepared to stop any illegal activity in the eastern Mediterranean and refrain from inflammatory statements and provocative actions that stand in the way of meaningful dialogue.
The Greek Prime Minister clarified, in his two messages, that Turkey has been practicing a great escalation of acts and aggressive rhetoric since last July 21, highlighting that they constitute an unprecedented threat to the sovereignty and rights of Greece, as well as the peace and stability in the region in general.
The Greek Prime Minister considered that Turkey continues with its provocative actions in the Eastern Mediterranean (Reuters)Athena did not respond to calls for dialogue
On the other hand, Turkey announced today that Greece refused to negotiate on the crisis in the eastern Mediterranean, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that his country has shown its willingness to dialogue, but Greece has not responded to any initiative in this regard.
At a joint press conference in Ankara with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Congo, Cavusoglu explained that Athens had initially accepted the initiative presented by NATO to hold a meeting between the military leaders of the two countries, but then rejected it.
He stressed that there is no European consensus to support Greece’s behavior in the eastern Mediterranean, and noted that the maneuvers his country is carrying out are being implemented within the framework of NATO laws.
Dujarric confirmed that the United Nations is closely monitoring developments in the eastern Mediterranean (Reuters)International monitoring of developments
In the context, the United Nations said that it is closely following developments in the eastern Mediterranean, noting that its Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, had contacted the Turkish and Greek authorities, emphasizing the need to resolve the differences. between the two countries through dialogue.
Stefan Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General – said at a press conference – that the international organization “remains very concerned about the continuing tension between the two countries, as we emphasize the need to resolve differences through dialogue.”
For its part, the European Union called for an end to what it called provocations and unilateral actions in the eastern Mediterranean.
In the context, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that his country is willing to facilitate the establishment of a dialogue between Cyprus and Turkey, to seek just solutions in accordance with international law.
Earlier, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which includes Turkey and Greece among its members, announced that technical talks would begin to prevent accidents between the fleets of the two countries in the eastern Mediterranean, but Athens said it was not according to the talks and Ankara accused Greece of refusing to dialogue.
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