Foreign Minister of Greece Meets With Estonian Counterpart

Greece’s Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis highlighted the fantabulous level of relations betwixt Greece and Estonia, pursuing his gathering with his Estonian counterpart, Margus Tsahkna, successful the country’s superior of Tallinn.

The Greek Foreign Minister underlined that some countries stock respective communal characteristics, such arsenic being coastal states, a origin that often complicates matters.

Gerapetritis went connected to stress the request to further strengthen ties betwixt the Balkan states and the Baltic countries. The goal, helium said, is to signifier a communal stance connected overseas argumentation and security, arsenic the challenges faced are shared.

“Despite our geographical distance, the challenges we look are common. Estonia is on NATO’s eastern flank, and Greece is connected the southeastern,” Gerapetritis noted.

He underlined that, contempt the geographical distance, Baltic and Balkan countries indispensable deepen their relations and follow a communal stance connected overseas and information policy, arsenic the threats are common.

Commenting connected the caller violations of Estonian airspace, the Greek overseas curate said the two countries faced akin acts of aggression. “Many times, we look akin forms of aggression. Global problems are becoming progressively complex. We saw this astatine the UN General Assembly last week. It was a wide and provocative violation of Estonia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. We indispensable stand united against this benignant of aggression.”

He besides noted that Greece has experienced thousands of violations of its nationalist airspace, which it has raised astatine each forum, including the European Union and the United Nations.

“We afloat stock Estonia’s concerns, particularly successful periods of aggression such arsenic today. We articulation our voice with Estonia, Poland, and Romania and condemn violations of nationalist sovereignty successful each their forms.”

On maritime security, Gerapetritis stressed its strategic value and recalled that Greece has made it a precedence during its tenure astatine the UN Security Council.

“We indispensable reaffirm our steadfast committedness to combating phenomena similar Russia’s shadiness fleet.” He added that it is important to extremity the wars and conflicts successful Ukraine and the Middle East to guarantee planetary security, calling for stronger planetary cooperation.

Gerapetritis highlighted that Greece has added the “fourth sea” to the Three Seas Initiative, creating a unified European space that indispensable beryllium defended and promoted.