Greece strongly condemns the Russian attack against an independent country, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said during an official lunch in honor of visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog and expressed the hope that common sense will prevail and a diplomatic solution will be found, ANA reports.
At the dinner at the Presidential Mansion in Athens, Sakellaropoulou welcomed Herzog to his first visit to Greece as president of Israel and said he was an old friend of Greece. She referred to the fact that Greece and Israel have long historical pasts and noted the common progress of both peoples was reflected in numerous monuments and artifacts through the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras to the present.
Israel’s government, like that of Greece, has “made an explicit statement about the situation and negative results of the violation of international right, and our request is that Ukraine’s independence and integrity be maintained,” visiting Israeli President Herzog said.
Herzog spoke of the relations of the two peoples going back in human history and cited a quotation by the late professor and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who pointed out that although wise men were appreciated, only two human societies committed to spreading knowledge and wisdom – the ancient Greek and Jewish cultures, which created academies for this purpose.
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