“We volition precise soon person the commencement of the method committee discussions connected the delimitation of the oversea zones with Libya”, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said successful an interrogation connected Sunday connected Sky radio.
He volition person a gathering today, Monday, with the overseas curate of Libya‘s Government of National Unity, and has already held akin discussions with eastbound Libya.
“Greece is the lone European state which is discussing astatine the highest level with the leaderships of the 2 sides,” helium noted, adding: “It is an important visit, which we volition person adjacent week. It is an expressed volition of the authorities successful occidental Libya to commencement these discussions, truthful it is simply a valid presumption that you are making.”
Furthermore, helium said that migration flows from Libya person been minimized. “There has been nary advancement successful presumption of the ratification of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum, though determination is the anticipated unit and we are perpetually processing our relations with some sides,” helium noted.
The overseas curate said that we person galore unfastened challenges up of us, arsenic beyond the accustomed overseas argumentation and diplomacy, the planetary arena is present wholly unpredictable.
Gerapetritis referred to the regular UN General Assembly successful September, which this twelvemonth is expected with peculiar interest, arsenic it volition beryllium the archetypal attendance of the 2nd word of US President Donald Trump. It volition besides beryllium successful the shadiness of 2 precise ample wars inactive raging successful Ukraine and the Middle East.
“International organizations, unfortunately, person not been seen to beryllium capable to supply the bully services needed and we often spot them being substituted by the large countries that are mediating truthful that we tin person a calmer situation,” helium stressed.
Asked astir the Palestinian issue, helium said the disapproval of the authorities is “unfair”. “Greece is pre-eminently a pioneer successful presumption of the humanitarian magnitude successful Palestine. We person taken large initiatives, we are successful afloat coordination with the Palestinian Authority. We are the ones who, among the Europeans, person the top enactment for the Palestinian Authority,” helium added.
He noted that Greece believes that determination should beryllium a authorities of Palestine, “but this indispensable look done a governmental process. It has been proven that unilateral recognitions person not contributed astatine each to the governmental process.”
Regarding the expected gathering betwixt Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, helium said that implicit the past 2 years, meetings betwixt the 2 person taken the signifier of a greater regularity.
“There is an volition by some of them to person a meeting. We are trying to find a suitable time, due to the fact that scheduling is not easy, the speeches of the 2 successful the General Assembly bash not coincide. But I americium hopeful that determination volition beryllium the close timing to person the meeting,” helium stated.
“With Turkey determination is simply a precise circumstantial model for dialogue. This model is the structured dialog that is taking spot connected the political, connected the economical Positive Agenda and connected the Confidence Building Measures. We proceed to support a precise basal stance which is that, recognizing our underlying differences, we tin nevertheless discuss, truthful that nary crises are produced,”
the Foreign Minister underlined.
He besides said that “our presumption successful the seas has been importantly upgraded and this is thing irrefutable. Turkey is reacting and it is tenable to react. It has its ain cognition of its claims successful the Eastern Mediterranean. We volition instrumentality to thing we person said from the beginning. Greece volition ne'er sermon sovereignty issues and volition not marque immoderate concessions.”
“We are upgrading our position. We are not going to beryllium deterred by the information that others are making claims. The aforesaid is existent of the claims we whitethorn person from Libya. We judge that done dialog viable solutions tin beryllium found. We bash not consciousness that a situation volition beryllium created by them, and determination is ever a way, which is provided for by planetary law, which is planetary jurisdiction. If Turkey considers that successful the portion of the delimitation of the maritime zones, the EEZ and the continental shelf, determination is simply a quality betwixt the 2 countries, determination is ever the mode of the International Court of Justice,” helium said.
Finally, erstwhile asked astir the disapproval helium receives from erstwhile Prime Minister Anthony Samaras, helium noted that helium has large respect for his publication to the state and his vocation successful New Democracy.
“He has a antithetic attack erstwhile it comes to nationalist issues. I americium convinced that if we beryllium down and sermon these issues – wherever we were 2 years agone with Turkey and wherever we are contiguous – I deliberation we volition reason objectively and impartially that not lone person determination been nary concessions, but connected the contrary, the planetary footprint of the state contiguous is stronger than ever,” helium noted.
“In this precise caller and caller development, with the expressed involvement of Chevron, it besides attests to the information that we person an fantabulous relationship, contempt rumours to the contrary, with the United States,” helium added.
“Because overseas argumentation is simply a substance of facts and not of assumptions and speculation, I person a feeling that determination could beryllium a treatment with Samaras arsenic well, which would beryllium productive. Foreign policy, nationalist issues, bash not lend themselves to a digestible attack oregon criticism. It should ever beryllium done connected the ground of arguments. And arguments that notation to the tract and not to theory,” concluded Mr. Gerapetritis.
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