Greece Encourages Global Truce After Drone Attack Sinks Container Ship
- Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for a global maritime truce after a drone attack sank a Greek container ship off Bulgaria.
- Mitsotakis said civilian commercial vessels must be able to travel safely and freely during conflicts.
- He said attacks on shipping raise transportation and insurance costs, create market uncertainty, and increase consumer costs.
- Mitsotakis said bilateral maritime agreements cannot override international maritime law.
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Athens expresses its unequivocal condemnation of the attack on a Greek-owned ship off the coast of Bulgaria. “Greece unequivocally condemns the recent attack by a sea drone against a Greek-owned merchant ship off the coast of Bulgaria. Such attacks are unacceptable, endanger human lives and constitute a serious threat to the safety of navigation,” states a relevant post by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the social networking site X. The sa…
"Such attacks are unacceptable, endanger human lives and constitute a serious threat to the safety of navigation," the Foreign Ministry said.
The Greek shipping ship container that had as its destination Constanta sank, after being hit Wednesday by naval drones off Bulgaria, announced Thursday the government of Sofia, being the most recent in a series of attacks on ships from the West Black Sea this month. It was not clear from ...
The Prime Minister of Greece, Kiriakos Mitsotakis, in his address to the United Nations, called for an international truce at sea; such a truce, in the view of the Head of Government, should ensure the safe and free navigation of commercial vessels in situations of armed conflict, wrote RIA News. The Prime Minister of Greece noted that attacks on commercial ships increased the cost of shipping and insurance, creating uncertainty in markets. He a…
Greece’s Mitsotakis calls for global maritime truce, condemns attacks on shipping - Regional Media News
Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for a global maritime truce on Thursday, saying attacks on civilian commercial shipping were unacceptable and threatened international trade and security. Speaking at a high-level debate of the Greek presidency of the U.N. Security Council [...]
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