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‘False information’

Jul 01,2014 - Last updated at Jul 01,2014

Reading the Agence France-Presse article  “Dozens of foreign diplomats seek asylum in Canada — media” (The Jordan Times, June 29, 2014) I was astonished by the reference to my country in a statement saying that “16 diplomats from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Greece, Honduras and even an American embassy staffer”, supposedly “requested asylum in Canada, motivated by the hope of better life” or because “they are aware of rights abuses in their homeland that they can no longer support”.

I can assure you that this information emanating from Ottawa and circulated on various Internet sites is totally false and defamatory for Greece and its diplomats who strive, among other things, to promote the democratic European principles worldwide, irrespective of the painful impact the economic crisis had upon their standard of living, a crisis that affected various European citizens and not Greeks only.

Readers should be informed about the inaccuracy of the aforementioned information.

Maria Louisa Marinakis,
Ambassador of Greece,
Amman

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