P. Marinakis: A verbal agreement has been reached between the Egyptian state and the Sinai Monasterytranslated

The government representative Pavlos Marinakis spoke today in an interview on the MEGA television station about the agreement regarding the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai. The government spokesman spoke of the resolution of a backlog he described as "1,500 years old". He explained that a verbal agreement has been reached between the Egyptian state and the Monastery, which remains to be formally completed and made public.

He invoked the support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Alexandria, as well as the Holy Synods of the Church of Greece and the Church of Cyprus. "Nobody talked about anything hidden," he stressed, accusing the opposition of trying to instrumentalize a national and religious issue. "There is a verbal agreement and the formal completion of the process remains for the text to be published," he said.

At the same time, he assured that the Sinai case is not going to affect the talks between Greece and Egypt on the extension of the maritime zone demarcation agreement. As he mentioned, bilateral relations are at an exceptional point and Egypt's attitude towards the international law of the sea opposes...