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Athens goes along with EU over Libya, waits for Turkey's move at UN European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to launch a new operation in the Mediterranean aiming to prevent any shipment of arms to Libya’s two factions.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Greece, Turkey launch new round of talks as Libya sea deal casts shadow Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is due in Brussels on Monday to attend the General Affairs Council which will focus, among other things, on the ongoing developments in Libya.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Greece faces dilemma over how to address relations with Turkey Greek-Turkish relations are still hanging by a thread and the government in Athens appears unsure about how to best respond to the revisionist policy Ankara insists on adopting.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Italian support over Libya buoys Athens as it looks to build broad East Med alliance The Greek government is continuing its diplomatic efforts to drum up opposition to the Maritime Jurisdictions Memorandum that Turkey signed last November with the UN-backed government in Libya.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Athens steps up diplomatic efforts amid ongoing friction with Ankara Greece is trying to expand its diplomatic activity in the wake of its latest spat with Turkey as relations with Ankara remain the number one foreign policy issue for Athens.
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PoliticsGreek Politics
PM brings law and order back onto agenda as foreign policy issues dominate Foreign policy issues have been dominating the domestic political agenda in Greece over the past few days, although the government has tried to shift focus back to internal matters via its law and order agenda.
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PoliticsForeign Policy Athens moves on after Berlin Conference absence, seeks more active role in Libya developments In Greece’s absence, the Berlin Conference ended on Sunday with an agreement among all the participants to respect a much-violated arms embargo, to hold off on military support to the warring parties and push them to reach a full ceasefire.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Excluded from Libya talks, Athens vows to block decisions that ignore sea border concerns Athens has been left to watch from afar the latest international diplomatic initiatives aimed at bringing an end to the longstanding conflict in Libya.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
Athens pleased with Washington talks despite lack of definitive US position on Turkey The government appears satisfied with the result of the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s first diplomatic tour in the US even though the Greek side did not elicit from the US president a public denouncement of Turkey's actions in the Eastern Mediterranean that Athens views as breaches of its sovereign rights.
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PoliticsForeign Policy
After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge Greece, Israel and Cyprus signed on Thursday a historic agreement for the construction of the EastMed pipeline, bolstering their tripartite alliance and shaking things up in terms of the geopolitical implications for the region.