Greece reacts to Egypt’s assurances on Mt Sinai monastery

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The Greek authorities has reacted to official statements issued precocious Thursday by the Egyptian Presidency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which denied immoderate change to the status of Saint Catherine’s Monastery astatine the ft of Mount Sinai pursuing a tribunal ruling connected Wednesday.

“Pending the afloat reappraisal of the tribunal decision, the two governments will proceed discussions successful the contiguous aboriginal to resoluteness the contented done an organization framework, successful enactment with their shared understanding and the agreements reached privately and announced publically during the caller visit of the Egyptian president to Athens,” authorities sources said Friday, referring to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s trip to the Greek superior connected May 7.

“The extremity is to safeguard the spiritual and Greek Orthodox quality of the Monastery,” they added.

According to media reports, an Egyptian tribunal ruling connected Wednesday could perchance pave the way for the confiscation of the Orthodox Christian monastery’s spot by the Egyptian state, arsenic well arsenic the eviction of its monks.