News, Documents and Position Papers on the Imia Issue

[Documents and Position Papers] [Letters & Public Response] [Links to Related News Articles]

Documents and Position Papers

• From the Hellenic Resources Network (HR-Net): Various Maps of the Imia Islets
• From the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Turkish foreign policy and practice as evidenced by the recent Turkish claims to the Imia Rocks
• From the Macedonian Press Agency: Europarliament Vote Supporting Greek Positions on the Aegean
• From the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Maps of the Imia Rocks
• From the Hellenic Ministry of Press and Mass Media: More maps of the Imia region
• From the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Agreements between Italy and Turkey of 1932 (In French)
• From Eleftherotypia: Document on the legal status of the Imia islets by MFA experts (In Greek)
• From the Macedonian Press Agency: 1932 CONVENTION BETWEEN ITALY AND TURKEY
  Section 30 of the Annexed Protocol (which was signed and is included here in French) refers to the Imia islet. (Also available in Elot 928 and ASCII Greek.)
• From the Macedonian Press Agency: 1947 DODECANESE CONVENTION
• Speech by MP Dora Bakoyianni: A New Era in the Balkans: the Role of Greece as a member of NATO and the European Union
• On Hellas On Line (in Greece) Aegean Incident at IMIA (Mirror on HR-Net)

Letters & Public Response

• Greek-American Community Letter to President Clinton
• Hellenic American National Council Letter to the US President
• Grass-roots Fax Campaign to World Governments (In ASCII Greek)

Links to International Press News Articles

• London Times 12 February 1996 EU foreign policy left in disarray by Balkan and Aegean bungling
• Nando.net February 8, 1996 10:17 p.m. EST Greek leader already in hot water
• TIME International February 12, 1996 Volume 147, No. 7 CONFLICTS: Brinkmen on the Rocks
• Britannica Online Articles related to: CONFLICTS: Brinkmen on the Rocks
• CNN: Wednesday January 31 Web posted at: 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT) Holbrooke: Greece, Turkey were on verge of battle
• CNN: January 31, 1996 Web posted at: 2:00 a.m. EST (0700 GMT) Greece, Turkey pull back warships
• CNN: January 30, 1996 Web posted at: 11:20 a.m. EST (1620 GMT) Greece, Turkey circle island each says is theirs