Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias

“The Prime minister cannot hang out to dry the foreign minister, who negotiated the Prespa Agreement, which is national policy,” sources close to Kotzias said.

Mr. Tsipras, with his secret meetings and subterranean arrangements with his coalition partner, is trying to extend his stay in office as much as possible, but it is by now clear to everyone, even to his ministers, that he can persuade no one.

ND's shadow foreign minister Yorgos Koumoutsakos cited Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias’ refusal to discuss pending foreign policy problems as the reason for the walk-out