Bilateral relations, the refugee issue, the various crisis areas, and Cyprus, were among the issues discussed at the working dinner on January 23 evening in Berlin to the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias by his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
In his statements to the Greek and international press after the meeting, the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Niko Kotzias, excluded once again the possibility of joint patrols of Greek and Turkish coastguard, and proposed Fronex to readmit those migrants that are not entitled to asylum, to Turkey, after their identification in Greece .
Foreign Minister Kotzias openly condemned, taliking to the press, the proposals for exclusion of Greece from Schengen.
Asked to comment on the recent Financial Times article , according to which Brussels and Berlin consider a proposal of Slovenia to strengthen care at the border between Greece and FYROM, which would result in trapping thousands of people…
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