{"id":51525,"date":"2023-04-29T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=51525"},"modified":"2023-04-29T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:59:38","slug":"why-did-greece-abstain-kosovo-vote-in-council-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/why-did-greece-abstain-kosovo-vote-in-council-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Greece abstain Kosovo vote in Council of Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanos Dokos, advisor of national security to the Greek Prime Minister revealed why his country abstained the Kosovo vote in the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from the Delphi Economic Forum, Dokos argued that they decided so \u201cto calm down tensions\u201d. Regardless, Greece will not recognize Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it would be the best to calm tensions between both parties. We still haven\u2019t recognized Kosovo and we won\u2019t do it. But we are trying to be as constructive as we can,\u201d said Dokos.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Serbia has promised not to hinder Kosovo\u2019s membership in international organizations, according to the agreement towards normalization. Athens, said Dokos, only referred to this agreement.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of concerns in Serbia, whether to accept Greece\u2019s stance as a non-recognizing country of Kosovo\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p>Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Da\u010di\u0107 expressed his disappointment with Greece\u2019s stance and made sure to tell this to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Kosovo\u2019s Prime Minister met with the Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias.<\/p>\n<p>The two officials discussed bilateral relations and ways to improve it.<\/p>\n<p>They also spoke about the latest developments in the north of Kosovo, the results and importance of the local elections, the need to fully implement the Agreement with Serbia, as well as the expectations for the May 2<sup>nd<\/sup> meeting in Brussel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanos Dokos, advisor of national security to the Greek Prime Minister revealed why his country abstained the Kosovo vote in the Council of Europe. Speaking from the Delphi Economic Forum, Dokos argued that they decided so \u201cto calm down tensions\u201d. Regardless, Greece will not recognize Kosovo. \u201cWe thought it would be the best to calm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,165,163,1],"tags":[150,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why did Greece abstain Kosovo vote in Council of Europe? - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/why-did-greece-abstain-kosovo-vote-in-council-of-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why did Greece abstain Kosovo vote in Council of Europe? - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tanos Dokos, advisor of national security to the Greek Prime Minister revealed why his country abstained the Kosovo vote in the Council of Europe. 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