FM Dendias: ‘Borders do not change and cannot change'

Greece's extension of the fence along the country's northeastern border with Turkey will proceed as planned and will be completed, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told Kathimerini in an interview a few days after an exchange of demarches with Ankara over activities in an area of the southern part of the Evros River.

"Borders are a given. They do not change and they cannot change," Dendias stressed, adding that some of his comments have been taken out of context and deliberately distorted.

There has been a lot of noise recently over the situation in southern Evros. What are the Turkish authorities asking for that prompted the demarches from Greece?

As is already known, we have started working on an extension of the fence at Evros. Turkey reacted to this work. We received a demarche in which Turkey asked us to share the exact coordinates of...

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