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Greece Warns it Will Block an EU Peace Deal for Libya

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   Greece will block any European Union peace deal for Libya, Prime
   Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday, unless a maritime deal
   between Turkey and Libya is scrapped.

   "Greece at the level of a summit meeting will never accept any
   political solution on Libya that does not include as a precondition the
   annulment of this agreement," Mitsotakis told Greek television on
   Thursday.

   "To put it simply, we will use our veto."

   Greece says the deal setting border and energy exploration areas in the
   Mediterranean between Libya and Turkey is "unacceptable and illegal"
   because Greek claims in the Mediterranean are ignored.

   Mitsotakis is also upset Greece is excluded from a peace summit on
   Libya to be held Sunday in Berlin. He says it is wrong not to invite
   Greece and plans to complain about it to German Chancellor Angela
   Merkel.

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