Kotzias

The US-Greece Strategic Dialogue starts on Thursday in Washington, a process that signals a significant deepening of bilateral relations.

Former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias has indicated that he had discovered evidence of a racket of some diplomats who had issued illegal visas to underage migrants.

Speaking at the ESIA journalists' union in Athens, Kotzias said he had sent his findings concerning 93 cases to a prosecutor and noted that "several diplomats went to prison for giving visas to unaccompanied children."

The majority of Greeks are opposed to the agreement achieved last June between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to resolve a decades-old dispute on the latter's name, according to a poll on issues of foreign affairs, published by Public Issue on Monday.

Remarks by Nikos Kotzias during the handover ceremony at the Greek Foreign Ministry last month, when the departing minister said that Athens had plans for the extension of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea coupled with straight baseline delimitations (or bay-closing lines), generated many reactions and articles on the issues of maritime borders and the continental shelf/exclusive economi

Nikos Kotzias, who resigned as Greece's foreign minister last month, has criticized Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for failing to support him in his dispute with junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos over the Prespes accord.

"Tsipras behaved like Pontius Pilate," Kotzias told News 24/7 Wednesday, a reference to the Roman governor who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos reiterated on Wednesday his vehement denial of allegations made last month by former Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, who claimed that Kammenos told a cabinet meeting the government was being financed by US-Hungarian billionaire George Soros.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday expressed the conservative party's standing disagreement with the name deal reached with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in June.

Speaking during a meeting of the party's parliamentary group, Mitsotakis said New Democracy will vote against the deal if it comes to Parliament.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou has ordered a probe into a lawsuit filed by former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias for defamation and dissemination of false news aimed at undermining him.

In the lawsuit filed Friday, Kotzias mentions specific media reports that were allegedly designed to intimidate him against concluding name talks with Skopje.

Former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias has prepared a 10-page legal suit taking issue with a spectrum of alleged detractors, according to the conservative newspaper Estia which reports that Kotzias accuses unnamed government sources of undermining him.

Greek carrier Aegean Airlines is inaugurating its first direct flight between Athens and Skopje on November 1, signaling a thaw in relations following the name deal signed between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in June.