“If Turkey wants to enter into dialogue with Greece, as it says, it needs to respect the European Council decisions on de-escalation. And it has to do this in practice and consistently,” Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said in an interview today on ATHINA 9.84 radio with journalists Athina Korlira and Alexandra Voudouri.Regarding the developments in the U.S., Mr. Varvitsiotis stressed that the mob scenes the day before yesterday at the Capitol shocked the world. “Mr. Biden has a very difficult job ahead of him: to move towards national reconciliation in a country that is deeply divided right now,” he added. Regarding the vaccination issue, the Alternate Minister underscored that “in spite of not being exclusively responsible in this area, the EU took a very important initiative in taking on the role of supplier of vaccines for all of its member states so that they wouldn’t be competing with one another.”Asked about Greek-UK relations following Brexit and the signing of the historic trade agreement with the EU, Mr. Varvitsiotis called the agreement a “Christmas gift,” pointing out that “our country is thoroughly prepared for Brexit and we are working closely with the UK to facilitate our relations and transactions even further.”
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