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Foreign and Defense Ministers in Riyadh
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias and the Minister of National Defense, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, are visiting Saudi Arabia today, Tuesday, April 20th.
Sixty Brits stranded at Athens Airport after plane was refused landing in Saudi Arabia
Sixty people on board a passenger plane from the UK are stranded at the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, after the Saudi-bound aircraft from London was forced to divert and land in Athens, following the refusal by the Saudi authorities to allow it to land in the Arab kingdom.
Greece is sending Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia to guard “critical energy infrastructure”
Greece says it is preparing to deploy a Patriot surface-to-air missile system unit to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Kingdom’s oil infrastructure. This news comes amid reports that the U.S. military is trying to get approval from Iraqi authorities to send Patriots there in the wake of unprecedented Iranian ballistic missile strikes aimed at American personnel in that country last month. That plan could involve moving U.S. Army Patriot units presently in Saudi Arabia into Iraq.