Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Tuesday said that the European Union and the Arab world must work together to find solutions to crises in the region, starting with that between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, while seeking broader cooperation in the "spirit of the Rhodes Conference," in his address to the 4th EU-Arab League Ministerial in Cairo.
A Turkish CN-235 military transport plane on Tuesday violated Greek air space and flew over the islet Panagia in the Oinousses complex at a height of just 100 feet (30 metres), the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (HNDGS) reported.
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias expressed his condolences to the people of Turkey, Germany and Switzerland and the families of the victims.
It is the government's political will to have all works in Crete completed by 2019 when elections will be held, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday said.