Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias was present at the Ukraine Accountability Conference, hosted by Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Wopke Hoekstra at The Hague’s World Forum on Thursday.
The conference was co-organised by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission.
Dendias noted in a statement to Greek journalists that this is “a rather important matter for Greece overall”, ANA-MPA reported.
First and foremost, he referred to the significance of “the crimes committed in Mariupol, and indeed after my meeting with survivors from Mariupol, two days ago in Odessa.”
“We will do everything we can to help the International Criminal Court (…), because we believe that the worst thing that can happen is impunity,” he stressed.
The Greek minister noted that he also had the opportunity to meet with his Dutch, Danish and Icelandic counterparts, with whom, he said, he discussed European Union security policy issues, and specifically, developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, cooperation within the framework of the European Council’s Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), as well as the migration/refugees issue.
With Iceland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, Dendias raised the issue of collaboration in NATO and in the Council of Europe, and bilateral relations at large, noting that “Iceland is a small country, but it has close relations with Greece and many similarities. Being an island country, we have many points of common interest in the context of the United Nations Organization, and also in the context of the Law of the Sea.”