{"id":3870,"date":"2026-05-04T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:17:00","slug":"george-gerapetritis-to-johan-vandeful-greeces-active-role-for-security-in-the-straits-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3870","title":{"rendered":"George Gerapetritis to Johan Vandeful: Greece&#8217;s active role for security in the Straits of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">Ensuring free <b>navigation<\/b> in the <b>Seaway of Hormuz<\/b> has been the focus of the <b>conversations<\/b> between <b>Giorgos Gerapetritis<\/b> and his <b>German<\/b> counterpart.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Athens is claiming a leading role<\/b> in international efforts to protect maritime trade routes, as <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"132\">foreign minister<\/b> during his meeting with <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"181\">Johan Vandevol<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Gerapetritis <\/b>underlined the strategic importance of the region for <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"277\">international stability<\/b>, announcing our country&#8217;s intention to contribute substantially to the initiatives for the safe passage of ships.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">In his official remarks,<b>the Greek minister noted<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">&#8220;We support the international initiatives for the <b>unimpeded and safe passage of the Strait of Hormuz and we add to take an active role in cooperation with the maritime community<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Mr. <b>Gerapetritis<\/b> placed particular emphasis on the <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"46\">universal dimension<\/b> of respect for navigation rules, stressing that the issue goes beyond commercial transactions and is directly linked to <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"193\">global peace<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">At the same time, he <b>recalled Greece&#8217;s actions as a member of the<\/b> <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"272\">UN Security Council<\/b>, while referring to the risks of regional instability, he said:<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">&#8220;<b>It is important to prevent the unfolding crisis<\/b> from reaching uncontrollable proportions for the global economy, the international food chain and the daily lives of citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The safeguarding of free navigation in the Straits of Hormuz was the central point of the talks between George Gerapetritis and his German counterpart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}