International Court of Justice

Greece will highlight in a persuasive manner that it is speaking earnestly when it says it has no problem with going to the ICJ with Albania and that it is prepared to accept the Court’s verdict.

Politicians in Greece and Turkey know what the content of a compromise will be, and they are certain that it will not go over well with public opinion in their countries.

Nato for decades and until now has chosen a policy of equal distances, and so today’s meeting is crucial because the allies will have to take a clear stand on the perilous conflict.

Greece is also taking initiatives in the Middle East such as the foreign minister’s trip to Libya and Egypt yesterday,

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos issued a thinly veiled call for the two countries to agree to take the issue to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.