N. Dendias for consul of Mariupol: ‘Until tomorrow night he will be in EU territory’

“This is a black hour,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said during a discussion on the “Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Hellenic Republic and the Government of the United Arab Emirates” on the shadow cast by the conflict in Ukraine. with the joint cooperation in foreign policy and defense and the verbal communications on the Greek original text of the Agreement “.

Informing about the return of Consul General Manolis Androulakis from Mariupol, the minister estimated that by tomorrow night he will have crossed into EU territory, as yesterday he was on his way to Zaporizhia but the city was bombed and their route had to be modified.

Responding to the question asked by opposition MPs about “whether our country tried to reduce the consequences for the expatriates”, he stated that “we had warned both the Greek citizens and the expatriate” and referred to the announcements of the Foreign Minister made on 11, 14 and On February 24, we “asked them to leave the country”, while he reminded that he also visited both Mariupol and Moscow. He noted that “so far we have organized five evacuation operations and we hope to achieve a sixth” and added that “it is a tragic moment and the least we all owe is to be absolutely serious.”

Responding to criticism from Greek Solution President Kyriakos Velopoulos that a Greek-owned oil tanker owned by the media had loaded fuel from a Russian port, the minister said “there is no ban on exporting energy to our sanctions and this is not the case. this government that will make the Greek navy an apologist “.

He further added that “the basic principles on which our foreign policy is based and on which we are based are: humanitarian law, the inviolability of territorial integrity, compliance with the international organizations in which NATO and the EU are involved.”

Greece, Mr. Dendias stressed, “pursues a broader policy, not outside its principles” and pointed out that it is “obvious that the country’s needs in an era of globalization are changing, as our historical interlocutors have changed and can not remain in the data of the 80’s because that would be a great ostrich “.

Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

Source: Capital

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