Greece

Captain Theodoros Mikropoulos has officially assumed the position of Commander at Sea for the second half of 2020 for the operation "Irini" at the Taranto naval base in Italy. The commander's ship is the frigate "Adrias," while the naval staff...

A frigate from the Greek Navy which is taking part in the EU naval mission off the coast of Africa is currently shadowing a Turkish vessel suspected of carrying weapons to Libya, violating the UN-imposed arms embargo to the...

The US government continues to cast aspersions on the legitimacy of the memorandum of understanding on sea borders signed by Turkey and Libya last November, calling it "provocative" and "counterproductive." The arbitrary demarcation of the two countries' maritime borders violates...

Officials of a brand-new multinational naval task force, designated as "Operation Irini," welcomed Greece’s contribution to the force on Thursday in the form of the Hellenic Navy's Hydra-Class Frigate Spetsai. Through Operation Irini (the Greek term for “peace”) the European...

Greece responded sharply on Thursday to news that NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had referred to the Muslim Brotherhood faction, led by Fayez al-Sarraj, as the legitimate government of Libya. In an interview published Thursday in the Italian daily La Repubblica, Stoltenberg...

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in Paris on Wednesday, where earlier he held an official meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. The French leader welcomed Prime Minister Mitsotakis on the steps of the Élysée Palace in the capital city before...

World leaders agreed on a final communique regarding Libya during a conference held in Berlin on Sunday. Details of the agreement were presented during a press conference by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN Special Envoy for Libya...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke on Saturday on the phone with the President of the European Council Charles Michel at the latter's initiative and with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the issue of Libya. According to...

The commander of rebel forces in war-torn Libya, General Khalifa Haftar, met Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens today in a bid to counter Turkish support for his opponents. The surprise visit by Haftar takes place ahead of a...

Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday. “Greece will veto even at a foreign ministers’...

The US State Department condemned on Tuesday the recently signed maritime deal between Libya and Turkey as "counterproductive and provocative". Replying to a question by the Athens-Macedonia News Agency (AMNA), a State Department spokesman said that Turkish claims are...

Greece suffered a diplomatic setback as it emerged late on Tuesday that it had been excluded from the summit on the crisis in Libya, to be held on January 19 in Berlin. The German hosts rejected Athens' claim that is...

The Greek government has requested to be invited to participate in the upcoming talks on the Libya crisis scheduled to be held in Berlin, possibly this coming weekend. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas stated on Tuesday that Athens is "making every...

The Foreign Ministers of the four Mediterranean states of Greece, Cyprus, France and Egypt, condemned the recent maritime agreement signed between Turkey and Libya. Meeting on Wednesday in Cairo, the leaders stated that the controversial agreement undermines regional stability. The...

Libyan House Speaker Aguila Saleh on Saturday asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, whom he met in Larnaca, to convey a message to the European Union regarding the situation in his country...