Gerapetritis: Greece and Finland both aim at a ‘more powerful, resilient, strategically autonomous Europe’

The extremity of some Greece and Finland is simply a “more powerful, more resilient and strategically autonomous Europe,” Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said successful a connection aft gathering his Finnish counterpart Elina Valtonen successful Helsinki connected Thursday. This, helium added, requires a beardown European defence strategy with enhanced capabilities “and we are moving successful this direction.”

“As countries of the European South and North, respectively, Greece and Finland are gathering contiguous with the purpose of promoting a amended knowing regarding information challenges,” helium said. “The outer borders unite america and I deliberation this makes the modern challenges we look understood,” Gerapetritis added.
The curate emphasised that extortion of the borders is important and an inseparable portion of European strategy, portion noting that Greece “stresses the value of a just organisation of the burdens, solidarity and deterrence of immoderate benignant of improvement of instrumentalising migration flows.”
He besides commented that, pursuing the historical determination for Finland to articulation NATO, “we stay dedicated to strengthening transatlantic ties.”
“From the commencement of the warfare successful Ukraine, we strenuously condemned Russia’s amerciable penetration and steadfastly supported the territorial integrity and independency of Ukraine,” helium said, emphasising Greece’s enactment of efforts to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine and for an contiguous and unconditional truce that volition intelligibly guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Greek curate besides highlighted the value of maritime information for Greece and said that Athens condemns the beingness of a “shadow fleet that openly violates planetary law”, making each effort to combat this phenomenon.
He said the gathering with his Finnish countepart had besides focused connected EU enlargement, expanding bilateral practice successful trade, vigor and tourism and caller areas, specified arsenic start-up companies, arsenic good arsenic the communal enactment of the candidacies of some countries successful planetary fora and organisations.
He said Greece supports Finland’s candidacy for a UN Security Council spot successful 2029-2030 and that the 2 countries repeated, during the gathering connected Thursday, their committedness to moving unneurotic to enactment the United Nations and guarantee that its cardinal peacemaking relation is preserved for the payment of aboriginal generations.

source ANA-MPA