Eastern Mediterranean, Stoltenberg: "Agreement between Greece and Turkey"

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01 October 2020 Greece and Turkey, both NATO members, have agreed to establish a direct line to avoid the risk of accidents and to help resolve disputes between the two countries. This was announced by the Atlantic Alliance.

The agreement, reached at the level of military officials, is "designed to reduce the risk of incidents in the Eastern Mediterranean" and "can help create space for diplomatic efforts to address the dispute between the two countries," the secretary said. general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg.

The agreement comes while an EU summit is underway in Brussels dedicated precisely to the issue of tensions in the eastern Mediterranean and at the end of technical negotiations that went on for weeks between the two parties at the NATO headquarters.