The Foreign Ministry is monitoring the escalating tensions in Syria with great concern. The ongoing bloodshed and absence of immediate prospects for a way out of the crisis, in combination with recent developments, heighten the risk of the conflict’s spreading beyond Syria’s borders.
Greece calls on all the sides involved to show the greatest possible restraint and to avoid actions that might lead to the destabilization of the wider region.
From the very outset, Greece declared – as a position of principle – the need for the immediate opening of a political process for the resolution of the Syrian issue so that the bloodshed might stop and so that a new environment might be shaped in the country; an environment in which human and minority rights – including those of Christians – should be safeguarded and respected.
May 6, 2013