Greece is ready to provide humanitarian assistance to the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and considers the efforts of the international community to strengthen peace and stability in the South Caucasus necessary. This was stated by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Granada, reports press service of the Prime Minister of Armenia.
The parties discussed issues of cooperation between Armenia and Greece, the situation in the South Caucasus. “The Prime Minister of Armenia presented the situation that has arisen as a result of the forced deportation of over 100 thousand Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh,” the message says. Mitsotakis invited Pashinyan to visit Athens.
Until recently, Greece did not react in any way to the events in Karabakh. Only on Wednesday, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis, during a telephone conversation with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan, expressed Greece’s concern about the mass exodus of Armenians from Karabakh and said that Greece is ready to provide humanitarian assistance through EUpromised to support Armenia at international forums to immediately resolve the problem and expressed readiness to help refugees.
It is noted that Nikol Pashinyan also discussed the problems of internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh and ways to solve them with the Prime Minister of Slovenia Robert Golob, the head of the government of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel, as well as the Prime Ministers of Ireland and Norway Leo Varadkar and Jonas Store. An exchange of views took place on issues of mutual interest.
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