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Eastern Libya forces will not allow the United Nations to use the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli, a spokesman for the group that has been trying to capture the city from the internationally recognized government said on Feb. 12.

A contested memorandum of understanding delimitating maritime borders between Turkey and Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli is "outrageous" and based on a "flawed reading of international law," a US Senator said on Wednesday during a discussion at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about US Policy towards Libya.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Wednesday briefed party representatives οn the situation in the Southeast Mediterranean and Turkey's activities in the region, during a meeting of the National Council of Foreign Policy.

Speaking after the meeting, Dendias said that "Greece remains committed to keeping communication channels open" with Turkey.

Greece's National Council for Foreign Policy will convene Wednesday so Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias can brief opposition parties on recent developments, the ministry has announced. 

Speaking on a radio show hosted by U.S. radio journalist Hugh Hewitt about the announced rebuilding of Belgrade-Pristina airline and railway traffic, Grenell said yesterday that U.S. President Donald Trump's goal was to use the economy to raise political issues.

Turkey on Feb. 11 dismissed claims that it had accepted ending the guarantorship system for Cyprus, under which Turkey stands as a guarantor for the island.

"News reports in the Greek Cypriot press alleging that Turkey has accepted ending the guarantorship system for Cyprus are not true," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement.

A legal technicality has led Cyprus to temporarily halt a process to strip citizenship from 26 individuals who benefitted from a secretive passports-for-investment scheme, lawmakers said on Monday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Melvut Cavusoglu described Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci as "unreliable," after the later said the prospect of Crimea-style annexation with Turkey was "horrible".

"I've never worked with a more unreliable politician," he said in a press conference on Monday.

Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula presents his latest work, "Congo," on stage at the Onassis Stegi. "Congo" is a politically oriented performance which mixes singing, dancing and oral storytelling and recounts the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Linyekula's home country, especially its brutal colonization.

No one will win in the East Mediterranean if each party continues to stick to a philosophy of "us against them" and strives for the biggest piece of pie as regards energy resources, US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Francis Fannon told Kathimerini Cyprus in an exclusive interview.