Editorial
January 2025
Issue Number 540
Greece assumed its position as non-permanent Member of the UN Security Council as of January 1st 2025 at particularly challenging times. Greece’s participation in the UNSC gives Greece the opportunity to showcase its diplomatic capital by actively participating in the formulation of decisions on global issues, such as peace, development, security in unstable regions and human rights. As Minister of Foreign Affairs George Gerapetritis noted, “Greece becomes, in practice, a joint producer of international policy for the architecture of global security, with a substantive say, role, and responsibility in international developments.”
Additionally, the political, social, military and economic situation in our wider region requires vigilance. Athens reiterating that its priority is to ensure the unity, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of each country, as well as emphasising that all religious minorities must be respected.
Numerous sources of instability are identified in our surroundings, which underline the need for Greece to remain and emerge as a reliable factor of security and stability. The international environment has become particularly complex, contested, competitive and volatile. The challenges in the modern era are evident that they cannot be limited exclusively to the prevention of military actions and threats on the field. Their response extends to the preventive containment of a wider range of challenges, such as hybrid threats, cyberattacks, disinformation, the instrumentalization of migratory flows.
Greece consistently promotes its stabilising role in the wider region in international organisations and claims active participation in them, guided by the principles of good neighbourliness and International Law. In this light, the development of collaborations and understandings with countries that embrace its principles is a strategic choice of Greece. The trilateral and multilateral cooperation schemes give Greece the opportunity to play a pivotal role in the Southern East Europe-East Mediterranean, as it is considered a pillar of stability and security by its partners and allies in a key region of the global map.
Important components in this direction are Public Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy, Defence Diplomacy, which seek to strengthen and develop strategic partnerships in many fields with states with which Greece shares the commitment to national independence, sovereignty and International Law.
Nicolas Boutsicos
Managing Director – Editor
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