SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras thanked Pope Francis for mentioning the Prespa Agreement during a speech at the Presidential Palace in Athens, expressing his respect "for the difficult road leading to the Prespa Agreement, signed between Greece and Northern Macedonia," he said. MIA correspondent from Athens.

Tsipras met this morning with the Pope at the Vatican Embassy in Athens, and after the meeting, according to what he posted on social media, they discussed the migrant issue, the pandemic, but also the Prespa Agreement.

- I thanked him for his mention of the Prespa Agreement. If we could contribute to the peaceful coexistence and struggle against nationalism that divides nations and provokes wars and conflicts, we were on the right side of history, wrote Tsipras on Facebook.

At the same time, he thanked him for his "cruel sincerity in his speeches and for his unwavering defense of human rights and social justice."

- I had the opportunity to talk to him about the hypocrisy of the EU governments towards the human drama of refugees and migrants, where they talk about human beings while building fences and rejecting any legal migration route. But also for the spread of inequality, poverty and social exclusion throughout the world, for the greed of the developed world for the third world, with the refusal to abolish the patent for vaccines that will enable mass vaccination of hundreds of millions of citizens, pointed out Tsipras.

Source: MIA