In addition to Turkey, to which Greece expressed its grief and offered help, earthquake hit Syriawhich, despite the sanctions against the regime, Greece is trying to help, he stressed. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in his statements at the beginning of his visit to Argentina. “Firstly, with regard to Turkey, we will continue to help in any way we can.

In addition, of course, the earthquake was not limited to Turkey, a very large part of Syria was also affected. Regardless of the sanctions policy against the Syrian regime, from the very beginning we tried to help in any way we could.. We have contacted the Patriarchate of Antioch, we have contacted the United Nations. Human suffering has no boundaries, it is not threatened by sanctions. The Greek government will do its best to help where it can, of course also in Syria,” said Mr. Nikos Dendias.

Asked whether the wave of solidarity that emerged after the tragedy of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria could create conditions for an improvement in the Greek-Turkish climate, the Minister of Foreign Affairs replied that, first of all, The Greek government at all levels in Turkey has expressed its deepest sorrow over the consequences of the devastating earthquake to the families of the victims and has offered all the assistance we can and will continue to offer.. “This mutual wave of understanding means something very simple: that the two societies, Greek and Turkish, are very close, psychologically very close.

We are neighbors, we have a past, we will have a future. So I think what’s happening is that the feelings between people are often different than what their leadership formulates,” he stressed.

Subsequently, he mentioned his visit to Argentina by the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece to that Latin American country. “Here in Buenos Aires we are in the middle of a tour of six countries in Latin and Central America. Four of them have never been visited by the Greek foreign minister.

An important trip, eight memorandums, four agreements that are part of the strategy of broad horizons and serve both our goal of being elected to the Security Council, the Human Rights Council and the President of the United Nations General Assembly, and our goal of a broader understanding of Greece’s positions on international law and international maritime law,” said Nikos Dendias. Finally, he stressed that “Greece must develop its political and economic relations beyond narrow horizons, and that is what we serve.”

With information from APE-MPE