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The Hellenic Navy is enhancing its capabilities with the acquisition of advanced Exocet missiles and new patrol vessels.

On October 4, the ceremony for the handover of duties of the Commander at Sea (COM FHQ) of Operation IRINI took place at the naval base in Taranto, Italy. Italian Rear Admiral Armando Simi officially transferred command to Greek Commander Prokopios Haritos PN, with the presence of Rear Admiral Valentino Rinaldi, the Italian Commander of Operation IRINI.

Movements at all levels are being made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to "decongest" the situation that has been caused south of Kasos and Karpathos on the occasion of Turkey's attempt to impose the Turko-Libyan Memorandum on the field and the claim on the Greek continental shelf.