With their foreign ministers Belgium Haya Labib and his Lebanon Abdel Bou Habib meets today Nikos Dendiasin the context of further informing their EU counterparts, as well as the wider Greek interest, about the situation in the Aegean sea as well as Eastern Mediterranean. In talks with his Lebanese counterpart, Mr. Dendias will also discuss an agreement on the delimitation of maritime zones between Lebanon and Israel, which is interesting from many points of view for Greece, which is another proof of the possibility of compromises on this issue. field. Meanwhile, yesterday the Greek ambassador in Ankara proceeded to deliver a letter of refusal from the Turkish authorities to allow entry into Smyrna to the governor of Central Macedonia, Apostolos Tsitsikosta, who arrived in the city as president of the European Committee of the Regions a few days ago.

At the same time, Ankara continues to record the tactics of constant tension and militarization of rhetoric at all levels. Firstly, yesterday morning (03:20) a Turkish UAV flew over Candeliussa again, during the day when 69 violations of national airspace were recorded. In the context of the militarization of speech, the promotion by the Turkish news agency “Anatolu” of the news that tests of the Bozdag air-to-air missile of the domestic military-industrial complex are continuing. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for his part, went on to make several ambiguous, non-redeeming statements. And he emphasized that “until we fulfill the centuries-old dreams of our people, we will not stop, we will not succumb to attacks and we will resolutely continue our struggle.”

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay launched an attack on the US and the EU. for, as he argued, they are trying to “disturb the balance in the region with their unilateral position on the Cyprus question and Greece and spoil the climate of the world”. He returned supporting the two-state solution in Cyprus, stating that the recognition of a pseudo-state “is important not only for the solution of the Cyprus question, but also for the transformation of the Eastern Mediterranean into a zone of peace.” .