FM Dendias briefs parliamentary parties on foreign policy issues
FM Dendias with main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance sector-head for foreign policy, George Katrougalos. Photo via Twitter@NikosDendias
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Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias briefed the parliamentary parties on current foreign policy issues on Friday, in a series of meetings with the parties’ representatives as well as the chairperson of Parliament’s National Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee.
The first meeting was at 10:00 with main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance representative George Katrougalos, followed by PASOK-KINAL representative Andreas Loverdos at 10:45,
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) representative Giorgos Marinos at 11:30 and at 12:00 he will received the representative of Elliniki Lysi, Antonis Mylonakis.
At 12:30 he met wtih the representatives of MERA25 Sofia Sakorafa and Dimitris Liapis and at 13:00 with the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee for national defence and foreign affairs Konstantinos Gioulekas.
Finally, at 13:45, he briefed ruling New Democracy (ND) representative Dimitris Keridis.
SYRIZA’s Katrougalos: The extension of ND’s stay in power harms the country
“The extension of New Democracy’s (ND) stay in power harms the country at a diplomatic and foreign policy level,” stated main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance sector-head for foreign policy, George Katrougalos, after his meeting with Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Friday. SYRIZA-PA was the first of the opposition parties in Parliament to be briefed by Dendias in the context of the regular briefing of the opposition on foreign policy issues.
In a statement after his meeting with Dendias, Katrougalos underlined that a “give everything and get nothing”, ad personam approach to foreign policy does not benefit the country and is an additional reason to return to the multidimensional, active diplomacy that the country needs and to hold general elections as soon as possible”.
FM Dendias briefs PASOK-KINAL representative Andreas Loverdos
The decision to offer Finland and Sweden the status of NATO candidate countries has the hallmarks of a historic decision, stated PASOK-KINAL representative Andreas Loverdos after the conclusion of his meeting on Friday with Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, who briefed Loverdos on current foreign policy issues.
PASOK-KINAL’s representative underlined that this decision overshadows any other matter discussed, including in Greece, at this time adding: “It would be wrong for the talks to veer toward other issues and because I was briefed on the precise text of the Agreement signed in Madrid, especially on such matters and especially with regards to Turkey’s stance, someone has to be very careful and very well informed before saying anything as part of the public debate”.
Loverdos also stated that he had the opportunity to discuss issues concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Western Balkans and NATO enlargement and obviously “matters concerning Turkey,” while adding that he had the opportunity to be briefed and “on some matters I did not know.”
KKE’s Marinos: Policy implemented by the gov’t and EuroAtlantic parties extremely dangerous
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) representative Giorgos Marinos on Friday expressed his party’s strong opposition to the policy that the present and previous governments have followed in the past, after his meeting with Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in the context of the regular briefing of the parliamentary parties on current foreign policy issues.
“We discussed with the minister the developments in the region, Greek-Turkish relations, the situation that is emerging after the NATO Summit in Madrid and I presented the KKE’s positions,” Marinos said, pointing out that “Greece’s involvolvement in the imperialist plans that have turned Greece into a US-NATO base of operations puts the people at risk,” while adding that “the policy implemented by the government and the EuroAtlantic parties is extremely dangerous”.
Source: ANA – MPA
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