Sinai monastery’s status must be preserved, PM says

View of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, shown successful 1990. [AP Photo]

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has held a telephone telephone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to sermon the latest developments surrounding the Saint Catherine’s Monastery successful Sinai, pursuing a caller ruling by an Egyptian tribunal concerning the site’s ownership.

According to authorities sources, Mitsotakis emphasized the value of safeguarding the monastery’s status arsenic a Greek Orthodox spot of pilgrimage and stressed the request to resoluteness the contented done organization channels.

The two leaders reaffirmed their committedness to the communal understanding antecedently reached – some privately and publically – during Sisi’s authoritative visit to Athens connected May 7, and agreed that this would signifier the ground for resolving the matter.

As portion of this ongoing dialogue, a Greek delegation is scheduled to visit Egypt connected Monday to further make and finalize the terms of the agreement.

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.