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Foreign Minister Kotzias addresses parliament during 2016 Budget debate

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Foreign Minister Kotzias: “The country’s foreign policy is principled. It is founded on values. It serves the good of the country and the people. In contributes to providing relief to society. It produces stability, seriousness, optimism. It defends the country’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. Its criteria are the national interest, patriotism, the course of the EU and international developments, international law, internationalism.”

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Foreign Minister Kotzias: ‘Greece and Iran are linked by at least 4,000 years of common history’

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Kotzias: “The world is changing. Nothing is as it was. This is why foreign policy must be proactive. It has to be able, in a timely manner, to recognize the problems; to study and shape alternative solutions; to be able to choose the best possible strategy and, at the same time, ensure its implementation.”

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(de g. à dr.) Jean Asselborn, ministre des Affaires étrangères et européennes (Luxembourg) ; Nikos Kotzias, ministre des Affaires étrangères (Grèce) ; Federica Mogherini, haute représentante de l’Union pour les affaires étrangères et la politique de sécurité, vice-présidente de la Commission européenne (Commission européenne)
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Kotzias: Greece cannot pay the cost of others’ choices in the region

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Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, in his remarks concerning current political affairs, with emphasis on the migration/refugee issue, at the 12th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (Nov-6), inter alia stressed: Despite the ongoing financial and social constraints facing my country, our public opinion has been sympathetic to and supportive of the refugees in a manner that corresponds to our culture and values…

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Greece – Bulgaria – Hungary discuss energy sector

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A trilateral meeting was held in Luxembourg yesterday [Nov 5], on the margins of the 12th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, between the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Nikos Kotzias; Bulgaria, Daniel Mitov; and Hungary, Péter Szijjártó.

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