Dendias: Greece promotes collaboration between EU, Arab world

The international community must aim at safeguarding Syria's sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity, Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias has said, during the welcoming remarks of the Athens Retreat on Syria.

These factors comprise the basic principles of Greece's foreign policy, he added at the meeting in Kavouri, on the coast south of Athens.

The war in Syria "has become the epicenter of a serious humanitarian crisis and of illegal military interventions by third parties, against international laws, while we have also witnessed the rise of terrorist and criminal networks," Dendias said.

As a country very near Syria, and one with very strong historical ties with it - including its local Christian communities - Greece has felt the repercussions from the war at first hand, the minister noted. Greece is trying to help in every...