{"id":80802,"date":"2020-09-06T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=80802"},"modified":"2020-09-06T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T09:08:52","slug":"13-00-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=80802","title":{"rendered":"Greek PM Tells Turkey to End \u2018Provocations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Greek PM Tells Turkey to End \u2018Provocations\u2019 for Dialogue to Begin<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters <\/strong>and Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi (not pictured) in Athens, Greece, September 4, 2020. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki\/Pool via REUTERS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday Greece would start talks with Turkey to resolve a row in the Eastern Mediterranean once Turkish \u201cprovocations\u201d ceased.<\/span><\/p>\n

He spoke a day after NATO said the allies had agreed to launch technical talks to avoid any accidents in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions escalated last month after Turkey sent a seismic survey vessel for hydrocarbon exploration in disputed waters in the region after a maritime deal between Greece and Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey says that deal scuttled talks with Greece under German mediation, and that it infringed on its own continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/span><\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Greece and Turkey had agreed to technical talks \u201cto develop mechanisms for \u2018de-confliction’\u201d at sea, and they were under way, but Mitsotakis appeared to attach conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c(Our country) can and wants to discuss the demarcation of maritime zones in the Aegean Sea, in the eastern Mediterranean, based on international law. But not under threats,\u201d he said during a meeting with China\u2019s top diplomat Yang Jiechi.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet the threats go for talks to begin,\u201d Mitsotakis said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the provocations end, discussions will begin,\u201d he said, adding that Greece\u2019s foreign minister would deliver a letter from him outlining Athens\u2019 case to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres when the two meet in New York on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday his\u00a0Greek\u00a0<\/span>counterpart Nikos Dendias had rejected an offer by Josep Borrell, the European Union\u2019s top diplomat, to meet without preconditions after he had agreed to such a meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey has said it supports NATO\u2019s initiative and that the talks were not about solving bilateral issues but about measures so far handled by the two countries\u2019 militaries. It said Ankara expected Greece to do the same, but\u00a0Greek\u00a0<\/span>diplomats said Turkey needed to de-escalate its activity in the region first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cavusoglu responded: \u201cIf Greece thinks meeting with us is a favor and that we have to abandon all our rights to be able to meet with them, this will not happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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