French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, right, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, second left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry pose for the photographers ahead of a quadrilateral meeting in Athens, Greece, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and France will focus on relations, developments in the eastern Mediterranean, the Cyprus issue and developments in Libya. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
ATHENS — Greece’s foreign minister Friday called neighbor Turkey “the common denominator” of threats to stability in the region, including the use of migrants as a lever to apply geopolitical pressure.
Nikos Dendias accused Belarus of copying tactics used by Ankara last year when a tense stand off at the Greek-Turkish land border was triggered by the arrival of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers.
“Unfortunately the common denominator of many of the challenges that we face in this region … is our neighbor Turkey,” Dendias said at a meeting in Athens with the foreign ministers of France, Egypt and Cyprus, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Sameh Shoukry and Nikos Christodoulides.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, makes statements with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias after a bilateral meeting in Athens, Greece, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. Talks focused on bilateral relations, developments in the eastern Mediterranean, the Cyprus issue and developments in Libya. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Greece and Turkey resumed high-level diplomatic talks in January for first time in nearly five years to try and ease tension over long standing boundary disputes in the Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean. But they remain sharply at odds and Greece has launched a multi-billion military modernization program with large navy and air force orders from France and the United States.
Turkey maintains that it has been unfairly excluded from access to Mediterranean mineral resources and denies that it helped migrants mass at the Greek border last year.
Egypt and France largely sided with Greece in the disputes.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
PHILADELPHIA – The Federation of Hellenic Societies of Philadelphia and Greater Delaware Valley announced that the Evzones, the Presidential Guard of Greece will be participating in the Philadelphia Greek Independence Day Parade on March 20.
NEW YORK — A 20-year-old woman was fatally shot Wednesday night while she pushed her infant daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side, police said.
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