(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, 02 OTT - Greece and Turkey set up a
military hotline on Thursday to avoid accidental clashes in the
eastern Mediterranean, where they are at loggerheads over energy
resources and maritime borders, NATO said. NATO chief Jens
Stoltenberg welcomed the breakthrough, which comes after several
weeks of talks between military officials from the two alliance
members. The two NATO members agreed to the talks after a
standoff over gas exploration in contested waters led to a
dramatic ramping-up of tensions, stoking fears that conflict
could erupt, perhaps by accident. "Following a series of
technical meetings between the military representatives of
Greece and Turkey at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, a bilateral
military de-confliction mechanism was established on Thursday,"
NATO said in a statement. (ANSA-AFP).
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