Kikilias from London: The Coast Guard fights daily to protect the maritime borders

The Minister for Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Vassilis Kikilias, met with high-ranking officials from the UK Home Office connected Monday during his visit to London, arsenic portion of the “London International Shipping Week”.

The absorption of the discussion, successful the beingness of the UK Ambassador to Greece, Matthew Lodge, was connected tackling amerciable migration, with the UK Home Office officials presenting their acquisition of migration flows successful the English Channel.

Kikilias described the challenges faced by the Coast Guard successful Greece connected a regular basis, underlining that “the men and women of the Coast Guard combat each time to support the maritime borders, while astatine the aforesaid clip managing migration flows, particularly from Libya, lately.”

The Greek curate extended an unfastened invitation to UK officials to visit Greece, successful bid to spot first-hand the work of the Coast Guard, arsenic portion of actions for further strengthening bilateral practice connected issues of communal interest.