(16 Dec 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 16 December 2024
1. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsokos arriving at Lebanese Prime Minister’s office, received by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati
2. Various of Mikati and Mitsokos standing for national anthems and inspecting honor guard
3. Mikati and Mitsokos shaking hands
4. Various of Mikati meeting with Mitsokos
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek Prime Minister:
"With regards to Syria, just a few quick words. The fall of the Assad regime is a welcome development, but of course it entails considerable security and of course migration risks."
7. Photographer
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek Prime Minister:
"The political process ahead in Syria needs to be inclusive to encompass all the groups while addressing the current fragmentation of the country. Because the people of Syria have also suffered a lot and must not be subjected to yet more displacement."
9. Cutaway of flags
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek Prime Minister:
"We do hope that future stability in Syria will also permit the millions of refugees who have left the country, many of whom are actually in Lebanon, to return to their country."
11. Mid of conference
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek Prime Minister:
"Today, we find ourselves, as you said, at a critical juncture. The ceasefire agreement with Israel offered the first ray of hope in over a year in this extremely challenging time for the whole region, and we welcome it with much relief. And the mediation efforts led by the United States and France are commendable and have resulted to this breakthrough development, the full implementation of which is, of course, crucial because people on both sides of the border have the right to live peacefully without the threat of bombs and rockets shattering their lives. And the international community, including Greece, has to do its utmost in order to uphold the ceasefire and implement, as you said, Resolution 1701."
13. Mikati and Mitsotakis leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
The prime minister of Greece said Monday the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria is a "welcomed development" but it entails considerable security and migration risks.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis told reporters in Lebanon’s capital Beirut Monday after a meeting caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati that the political process ahead in Syria needs to be inclusive to encompass all the groups while addressing the current fragmentation of the country.
"The people of Syria have also suffered a lot and must not be subjected to yet more displacement," Mitsotakis said.
The Greek premier expressed hopes that future stability in Syria will permit millions of refugees who left their country because of the conflict to return home.
Syria’s conflict that broke out in March 2011, has killed half a million people and displaced more than 5 million people many of whom are now in Europe.
Lebanon is the largest per capita host of refugee in the world, as the small Mediterranean nation of about 6 million people, hosts nearly 780,000 registered Syrian refugees and hundreds of thousands who are unregistered.
Mitsotakis said Athens backs the implementation of the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil and Mahmad Aounti
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