Ioannis Sarmas

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as prime minister for a second term on Monday afternoon, after his party achieved a big win on Sunday's general elections. 

The press office of Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas issued a statement on Friday regarding the fatal sinking of a fishing vessel which was carrying migrants.

Here follows the statement in its entirety:

Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas held a cabinet meeting on Friday to discuss the rights of the survivors of the deadly migrant shipwreck, state-run news agency AMNA reported.

The fishing boat sunk off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people while hundreds are feared missing.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has made the decision to postpone Wednesday's campaign rally in the western port city of Patra following the devastating shipwreck that occurred overnight off the town of Pylos.

The issue of the Turkish consulate's intervention in the Rodopi constituency of Thrace continued to spark tension on Monday with acrimonious exchanges between New Democracy and SYRIZA.

Leftist leader Alexis Tsipras has met with Greece's interim Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas amid the confrontation between SYRIZA and New Democracy over the Muslim minority in the northern Thrace region.

Theodoros Pangalos, a former Greek foreign minister known for his undiplomatic outbursts and on whose watch Greece suffered one of its most embarrassing foreign policy debacles in 1999, has died. He was 84.

Pangalos' family said on Twitter that he died on Wednesday "peacefully at home, surrounded by his family and close associates."

Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas, on Wednesday received the US Ambassador to Greece, George Tsunis at his office.

The ambassador congratulated Sarmas on his appointment as prime minister and wished the caretaker government good luck in its endeavours. They reaffirmed that Greek-US relations are "at their best point".

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Greece's Supreme Court Public Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos ordered an investigation into a cyber-attack on the data bank providing the school exam questions, with the assistance of the Police's Cyber Crime Unit.

Following the widely anticipated victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his country's presidential election, Athens is continuing its strategy of gradually and steadily reopening the numerous avenues of communication between Greece and Turkey.