According to RIA Novosti, Mitsotakis announced this after negotiations with his Estonian counterpart Kaya Kallas in Tallinn.
According to him, Greece did not support the EU initiative to ban Russian citizens from visiting European countries.
“But we, Greece, and as a tourist destination, were really influenced by the fact that we joined the European Union in all the sanctions packages, because almost this summer no one from Russia came to Greece, and almost all Russians who wanted to go, went to Turkey,” the Greek prime minister said.
Nevertheless, Mitsotakis expressed confidence that this decision of the Greek authorities was correct.
On September 12, the European Union also suspended the visa facilitation agreement with Russia, which had been in effect since 2007.
Meanwhile, the European Commission (EC) recommended that EU countries check all recipients and holders of Schengen visas from Russia for a "security threat" to the European Union.