GREEKS TURN TO SAUDI ARABIA

At the end of February, Greece's Foreign Minister Ioannis Charalambopoulos made a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia which showed the way Greece's new socialist government sees its relationship with the Arab world. So far, Greece had maintained an attitude towards the Middle East which, if not indifferent, was at least neutral. What the country and its government were more concerned about was, regarding the West, its integration in the Common Market and to the east, the deadlock on Cyprus and other Aegean islands.