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Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte will travel to Greece on Tuesday as protestors plan to organise a demonstration against his visit.
Rutte will meet Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and its foreign minister during his visit to the capital city of Athens.
Why are there protests?
Activists have planned to protest around Athens to denounce Rutte’s visit and oppose Greece’s growing cooperation with Nato.
The Communist Party of Greece will also take part in the protests and has called Rutte’s visit to the country “unwelcomed”.
Earlier, Rutte’s visit to Turkey was also protested by many including the Communist Party of Turkey which said, “This visit is taking place at a time when nuclear war is being talked about. Moreover, the NATO secretary is making his visit immediately after his meeting with Trump, who is preparing to take the US presidential seat soon.”
It added, “While wars continue in the south and north of us, and these wars are gaining new dimensions with the introduction of new weapons, Rutte’s visit will of course be related to the role our country will take in these bloody wars.”
Nato and Ukraine hold talks
Meanwhile, ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO’s 32 members met Tuesday in Brussels over Russia’s firing last week of an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile.
Kyiv says it hopes to get “concrete and meaningful outcomes” after calling the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council.
But diplomats and officials at NATO have played down expectations for any major results from the consultations on Tuesday afternoon at the alliance’s Brussels headquarters.
The most that is expected is a reiteration of NATO’s earlier insistence that Moscow’s deployment of the new weaponry will not “deter NATO allies from supporting Ukraine”.
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