Foreign Ministry: Greece will safeguard its sovereign rights

Greece is intimately monitoring the advancement of the “Piri Reis”, remaining connected the alert, and volition safeguard its sovereign rights successful each events, overseas ministry spokesperson Lana Zochiou said connected Wednesday, during the regular briefing with journalists.

As she pointed out, Greece issued an anti-Navtex, arsenic planned, and truthful acold determination has been nary question by the oceanographic ship.

Zochiou besides spoke astir the gathering betwixt Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis with the lad of Field Marshal Haftar earlier successful September, saying it took spot successful a constructive atmosphere, starring to agreements connected practice successful the economical sector, trade, energy, and transport. She emphasised that a concern ngo volition instrumentality spot successful the fall, portion the grooming of seashore defender officers volition continue, successful bid to lend to the prevention of migratory flows.

The overseas curate had additionally reiterated Athens’ presumption regarding the null and void, amerciable Turkish-Libyan memorandum, she said. At the aforesaid time, helium had highlighted the relation that Greece tin play successful the EU and the United Nations Security Council.

It should beryllium noted that Greece sent the UN a enactment verbale replying to a Libyan enactment verbale, emphasising its rejection of Libya’s claims regarding the illegal, null and void Turkish-Libyan memorandum, connected the grounds that Turkiye and Libya person nary maritime borders, portion the beingness of the Greek islands is ignored.

Zochiou besides referred to the geopolitical magnitude of Chevron’s information successful the tender because, geopolitically, Greece is becoming an important nexus successful the broader EU-US vigor cooperation.

It is besides peculiarly important that notation is made to the information that the plots are located successful areas of exclusive Greek jurisdiction with respect to the issuance of applicable permits.

Zochiou referred to the programme of Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis’ sojourn to New York to enactment successful the UN General Assembly. Greece is this twelvemonth participating successful the General Assembly arsenic an elected subordinate of the UN Security Council.

Gerapetritis volition enactment successful the Security Council gathering connected the Middle East and volition seat the ministerial league to beryllium held for the Forum of Ancient Civilisations.

He volition besides clasp discussions with a bid of counterparts, including those of Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Moreover, helium volition person contacts with the Greek diaspora and organisations, and volition be the Foreign Ministers’ meal organised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected the sidelines of the General Assembly.

Three much trilateral meetings volition beryllium held, Greece-Cyprus-Egypt, Greece-Cyprus-Jordan, Greece-Cyprus-Syria.

He volition besides enactment successful the Conference connected the Two-State Solution organised by France and Saudi Arabia and volition marque an involution astatine the high-level gathering to observe the 80th day of the founding of the UN.

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou is successful the US and volition person a bid of meetings with members of Congress and members of the US authorities with the purpose of preparing the Strategic Dialogue, which volition beryllium held successful Athens.

Papadopoulou volition enactment successful an lawsuit organised by Greece connected the sidelines of the General Assembly connected the taxable of maritime security, and the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organisation volition besides beryllium there.

source ANA-MPA