Current developments concerning the refugee issue and the Ukrainian Church issue were at the heart of a meeting between Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Ieronymos and U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Friday, ANA reports.
In the meeting with the American ambassador, Ieronymos pointed out that Greece does not only have borders in Macedonia and Thrace but also maritime borders, which are more difficult to guard.
He added that Greece is constantly subjected to blackmail by Turkey, which “opens the floodgates” and sends refugees to Greek shores, underlining the need for European solidarity in the management of the issue, as well as U.S. and European support for the guarding of the borders.
On his part, the chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission told reporters that they discussed the Ukrainian Church. He said the Archbishop’s decision to recognize the Ukrainian Church as autocephalous was historic, and said that he had delivered a letter from Ambassador Sam Brownback, the U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, expressing respect for the Archbishop’s decision and noting that the United States acknowledged the wisdom with which the Archbishop had acted.
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