European leaders at the conclusion of Greek presidency of the European Union, Corfu, June 1994
Courtesy Press and Information Office, Embassy of Greece, Washington

Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou on official visit with United States President William J. Clinton, Washington, April 1994
Courtesy White House Photo Office

Greece's geographic position has made inevitable a continuous involvement with close neighbors and the constant attention from great powers with vested interests in the eastern Mediterranean. In the years since World War II, Greek governments have been required to assume positions on local crises such as those in Cyprus and the Balkans while protecting Greece's best interests in the larger context of European geopolitics. The end of the Cold War left Greece with major foreign policy concerns to its immediate north and east.

Data as of December 1994

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