Chancellor Merkel finally passed her position for mild sanctions on Turkey, after, as it seems, the compromise, pro-Ankara solution she proposed prevailed at the Summit, after the agreement reached in the first hours of the night after 27, on the text of Conclusions. Although the EU adopted a harsher language against Turkey, it postponed any decision for immediate sanctions for the March Summit!

Speaking shortly before the start of the Summit, the Prime Minister noted that "now it will be seen if really, if as Europe we are credible in what we ourselves have agreed. Pacta sunt servanda (s.s .: what has been agreed must be observed) ".

A few hours before the extraordinary EU Summit on Belarus, Nikos Dendias was in Cyprus and discussed with President Anastasiadεs the coordination of the Athens-Nicosia actions against the Turkish provocation.