FM outlines Athens' position over plan to defuse Lebanon crisis

FM outlines Athens' position over plan to defuse Lebanon crisis

Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis on Monday appeared ready to depart for New York to attend a UN Security Council emergency meeting on the crisis in Lebanon, with local reports stating that she will leave in the "next few hours". Speaking in Athens after a meeting with Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal, held at his request, the Greek foreign minister noted that the UN Security Council has to put an end to an unjustifiable 23-day silence over the "vicious circle of violence that has caused death and suffering in Lebanon and Israel and a continuously deteriorating humanitarian crisis as well as hard to calculate disaster to the people of Lebanon."