These positive developments are a testament to our willingness to enhance our relations with important partners in the region to work towards safeguarding security.
I am sorry to say that the road ahead is very long and is full of obstacles.
Greece’s foreign policy believes that this is the only ticket to a better society, to a better world.
I have to say that since the first forum the pandemic has prevented us from meeting again, until, of course, today.
Broadening our scope and moving on to the Middle East, we are faced with persistent instability in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. These are all potential hotbeds of Islamic extremism and terrorism.
Broadening our scope and moving on to the Middle East, we are faced with persistent instability in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. These are all potential hotbeds of Islamic extremism and terrorism.
Excellencies,
Our own neighborhood, the Eastern Mediterranean, is continuously facing challenge upon challenge, the crises in Syria, Libya, the Cyprus issue, Turkey’s provocative behaviour in the Aegean, in the Eastern Mediterranean.
In Libya, the overall political landscape continues to be totally fragile and unstable.
• to respect international law, including the International Law of the Sea,
• to good neighbourly relations and
• to a rules-based cooperation
