President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos called his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta on the telephone on Tuesday and thanked him for granting Albanian nationality to the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania Anastasios, the head of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania.

The the prime minister will be faced with a serious political problem before the New Year is ushered in.

Israel's Ambassador to Greece, Irat Ben-Aba, spoke on the phone, on Tuesday, with Greek Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection, Nikos Toskas, on the issue of an attack with paint on the Israeli Embassy in Athens by the "Rouvikonas" anarchist collective on Monday.

Three Turkish military aircraft, two CN 235 electronic warfare (EW) aircraft and another turboprop aircraft continued the barrage of violations.