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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-03-09
CONTENTS
[01] Mitsotakis briefs EPP counterparts, EU and NATO about Turkey's
provocations
[01] Mitsotakis briefs EPP counterparts, EU and NATO about Turkey's
provocations
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday he informed
his counterparts at the European People's Party (EPP) summit in Brussels
as well as top EU and NATO officials about the recent spike in airspace
violations in the Aegean by Turkey.
Mitsotakis met with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, the
President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, the President of
the EU's Military Committee (EUMC) General Mikhail Kostarakos and NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
"I expressed to everyone my intense concern for the escalation of the
provocations in the Aegean from Ankara and of course I informed them
about Greece's standard positions [on the issue]," he said, noting that
for the first time Greece witnessed a military exercise of the Turkish
Navy with real fire inside Greek waters.
"Greece does not intend to be dragged into an escalation which, as it
seems, the Turkish side wants. But it will not allow any provocation to
go unanswered," he said and added Greece wants good neighborly relations
with Turkey based on international law and treaties.
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