Dendias: Greece seeks to consolidate stability and security in the Eastern Mediterranean

In the Eastern Mediterranean, as a member of the European Union and NATO, Greece seeks to consolidate stability, security and create conditions for economic growth, Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday, October 24, speaking at the Economist's 27th Government Roundtable, in Lagonisi, in the section "Defence and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean".

Dendias, among other things, underlined that "Greece directly and from the first moment condemned the terrorist attacks of Hamas". He described them as "acts of blind violence that, apart from anything else, cost the lives of a great many civilians, and which, in our judgment, weaken the legitimate expectations of the Palestinian people."

"We Greeks", he added, "have always perceived the Mediterranean as a bridge, not as a physical barrier. As a bridge that unites peoples, cultures, civilisations. After all, the stabilising role of our country is proven by the hundreds, more than 350 agreements that we have concluded in the last four years, with countries from all over the world, particularly the two Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreements between Greece and the United States."

"We also believe in the presence in our region of the United States and NATO, we believe that they can act as a foundation of stability. We believe that NATO is not only a Defence Alliance, but an alliance for the defence of values and principles, and that the Russian invasion of Ukraine highlighted precisely this role of NATO," he clarified.