International security

‘Russia & EU at crossroads’: Putin touts equality, genuine partnership ahead of Greece visit

Ahead of a visit to Athens for talks with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Vladimir Putin wrote an article for Greek daily Kathimerini, in which he praised the cooperation and future-oriented partnership between the two states.

In advance of the visit by Russia’s President to Greece, the newspaper Kathimerini published an article by Vladimir Putin titled Russia and Greece: Cooperation for Peace and Prosperity:

Today, Russia and the European Union have come to a crossroads, where we need to answer the following question: how do we see the future of our relations and which way are we going to head? I am convinced that we should draw appropriate conclusions from the events in Ukraine and proceed to establishing, in the vast space stretching between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, a zone of economic and humanitarian cooperation based on the architecture of equal and indivisible security. Harmonizing European and Eurasian integration processes would be an important step in this direction.