Mitsotakis defends Turkey policy in Parliament

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis connected Thursday defended his government’s argumentation toward Turkey during a parliamentary statement connected overseas affairs, stating that it seeks to trim tensions while safeguarding Greek sovereignty. 

“Why bash some radical knock the argumentation of ‘calm waters’ with Turkey? Do we want tensions?” the premier curate asked.

He reiterated that Greece remains steadfast successful its stance that the lone outstanding contented with Turkey is the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the continental shelf.

“Greece is asking our neighbour to assistance the casus belli (threat of war), insisting that the lone outstanding contented is the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the continental shelf,” helium said.

“Until we negociate to clasp a substantive treatment connected this pending matter, our homeland will proceed to enactment with a program and responsibility,” Mitsotakis continued.

He besides highlighted Chevron’s hydrocarbon exploration south of Crete and the instauration of caller marine parks successful the Aegean arsenic proofs of an progressive overseas policy. “These are moves that corroborate we are not pursuing a diplomacy of inertia, but of action,” the premier curate said.

Mitsotakis besides emphasized the value of maintaining Greece’s deterrent powerfulness and highlighted the government’s caller 12-year, €28 cardinal defence programme arsenic a captious step toward strengthening the country’s defense.

“The extremity of our federation has ever been to support qualitative superiority implicit immoderate imaginable adversary. And for the archetypal time, I judge we tin accidental that this extremity is being achieved,” helium said.

Concluding his remarks, Mitsotakis called for unity and work successful overseas argumentation decisions.

“I truly anticipation that astatine slightest connected matters of overseas policy, we will emergence to the occasion, due to the fact that nationalist decisions are not made successful java shops oregon connected television panels,” helium said, adding that “active diplomacy should not beryllium confused with revolutionary theatrics.” [Kathimerini, AMNA]