Yorgos Katrougalos

Though public attention over the last days in Athens focused on yesterday's signing of the bilateral, revised US-Greece Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement (MDCA), which is as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated the "bedrock" of the two countries' defence cooperation, less attention was paid to the importance of the latest round of the US-Greece Strategic Dialogue that was held in Was

Confronted with huge foreign policy challenges, the greatest of which is the escalation of Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, incoming Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has vowed to seek the broadest possible consensus on national issueswith SYRIZA and other opposition parties.

"Greece seeks dialogue but it will not cede anything that belongs to her based on international law. With seriousness, lucidity, self-confidence, and national unity we have nothing to fear," writes Foreign Minister Yorgos Katrougalos in an article in the Athens daily Ta Nea.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Foreign Minister Yorgos Katrougalos are in China for the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, based on the ancient Silk Road, linking East and Southeast Asia with East Africa, West Asia, and southern Europe.

Michalis Kostarakos, the former chairman of the Greek Joint Chiefs of Staff, has lambasted the SYRIZA government over its handling of foreign policy and national issues in a lengthy post on his Facebook account.

Foreign Minister Yorgos Katrougalos and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu held talks in the Turkish seaside resort of Antalya as the first step toward a sweeping dialogue that Alexis Tsipras and Tayyip Erdogan had announced during their recent meeting in Ankara.

Greek Foreign Minister Yorgos Katrougalos in an interview with the state-run Anadolu Press Agency on the eve of his visit to Turkey declared that Ankara cannot be excluded from energy-related issues in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The parliamentary debate on which articles of the Greek Constitution will be amended in the parliamentary session after the next general election led to a battle royal between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis with mutual recriminations about exploiting the process of revising the country's basic law to achieve partisan electoral aims.