Greek FM heads for Vienna talks amid standoff with Turkey
14/8/2020 19:29
Greece's foreign minister traveled to Vienna Friday for urgent talks with his European Union counterparts and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on military tensions with Turkey, as the Greek and Turkish navies continued a game of brinkmanship over eastern Mediterranean drilling rights.
Nikos Dendias was due to meet Pompeo and Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, with whom he will also participate in the emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers held by video conference and chaired by the 27-country bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
Athens is seeking backing and potential EU sanctions from its partners in the dispute with neighboring Turkey, which comes weeks after a similar confrontation was defused with the intercession of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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