At the initiative of the Armenian National Committee of Greece, the country’s foreign minister has been summoned to parliament to provide an explanation about why Greece’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan attended a junket to occupied Shushi organized by Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, Asbarez reports.
In a letter to Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Denidas the ANC of Greece expressed dissatisfaction with the decision to have Greece’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolaos Piperigos to attend junket to the Azeri occupied territories of Artsakh, including Shushi.
The Greece ANC letter has received wide support in various stakeholder communities in the country, as well as on social media in Greece.
Greece’s former foreign minister Nikos Kotsias took to social media to express his concern with the Ambassador Piperigos’ actions, calling it “shameful” that the envoy attended “Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian victory celebration.”
