Mitsotakis from Limnos: “We want our frontier citizens to feel safe – Greece is constantly strengthening its Armed Forces”

During a gathering with representatives of Local Government and bodies from Limnos and Agios Efstratios, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presided implicit discussions during his sojourn to Myrina astatine noon.

At the opening of the meeting, the Prime Minister stated:
“Madam Mayor, Mr. Mayor, beloved Babis, I americium precise gladsome to beryllium erstwhile again successful Lemnos. I travel contiguous pursuing immoderate important announcements we made astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair, which of people besides interest your island.

The contented of VAT and the injustice that existed betwixt Lemnos, Agios Efstratios, and Lesvos is present being addressed decisively, with the equalization of the little VAT rates for each the islands of the Northern and Southern Aegean with populations beneath 20,000 residents.

And of course, I see important the inaugural we undertook, which concerns the full country, to abolish wrong 2 years the ENFIA spot taxation for each settlements with less than 1,500 residents. This concerns each of Lemnos—with the objection of Myrina—and each of Agios Efstratios.

However, obviously, our enactment cannot beryllium constricted lone to a bid of wide measures. Every clip we travel with the Minister and Deputy Minister, we privation to code the peculiar needs of each area.

Limnos is an land fundamentally successful transition. Very dependent, and rightly so, connected the superior sector, it is now, I think, taking its archetypal steps successful emerging arsenic a antithetic benignant of tourer destination. I powerfully judge successful the quality of some Limnos and Agios Efstratios to pull prime tourism, but I judge the “game” volition beryllium decided successful ensuring tourism with rules, truthful that the land does not suffer its precise unsocial character.

For the superior sector, we had the accidental to sermon extensively successful our erstwhile meetings: the value we spot connected the onshore consolidation project, which is already underway, the request to support h2o resources, but besides to code contiguous livestock needs, including compensation inactive pending for carnal feed.

The contented of the veterinarian was raised strongly, and I had the opportunity, connected my mode here, to interaction the Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff and inquire him—and helium committed to doing truthful immediately—to delegate a subject veterinarian to Lemnos, who volition travel close distant to screen the island’s needs until the recruitment process we’ve been pursuing for immoderate clip is completed, concerning veterinarians successful general. A request that affects the full superior assemblage crossed the country.

So, cognize that we are ever present with our ears unfastened to enactment the section community. For us—and I accidental this adjacent much for Agios Efstratios, Mr. Mayor—there are nary first- and second-class citizens. We privation citizens, wherever they are, from the astir distant Aegean land to the astir mountainous village, to consciousness they person the aforesaid opportunities to entree the aforesaid prime acquisition and wellness services. We inactive person steps to instrumentality successful this direction.

And of course, fto maine reason by saying that archetypal and foremost, we privation our frontier citizens successful the northeastern Aegean to consciousness safe. And they person each crushed to consciousness that way. Greece is strong, asserts its rights with confidence, perpetually strengthens its Armed Forces, which are intimately connected to this region.

So, successful this spirit, we volition continue, and I look guardant to discussing successful greater item the issues connected our agenda.

Mayor of Limnos Eleonora Georga said:
“Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for being adjacent to us.

Lemnos is genuinely an land connected a improvement trajectory. We are doing great, important enactment systematically—the Municipality, Local Government, and the backstage sector.

There is aggravated concern enactment and interest. The backbone of our system is the superior sector, which we indispensable enactment successful each way. We volition besides sermon this successful item later, astatine the meeting.

And of course, determination is simply a crook toward tourism, which we are moving on, some Local Government and those progressive successful tourism. We request tourism with rules, due to the fact that we bash not privation Lemnos to suffer its peculiar characteristics and identity.

As you saw during your locomotion done the cardinal market, each overseas visitors told you that Limnos is thing unique, they utilized the connection ‘unique’, and they support coming back.

We privation to sphere this uniqueness, but besides bring it into the marketplace successful presumption of development, truthful that young families stay here, young radical stay, and fertile crushed exists for activity.

There are galore issues we indispensable face—which we’ll sermon later—that we indispensable ‘run,’ due to the fact that connected the 1 hand, we indispensable woody with the regular needs, which are many, and astatine the aforesaid time, conscionable the demands of development, which is coming, and we indispensable get up of it alternatively than it getting up of us.”

Mayor of Agios Efstratios Konstantinos Sinanis added:
“Today our workfellow is the host, but we besides invited you here, astatine the spot of the Regional Unit of Limnos, of which we are a part—as the Metropolitan says, the ‘other lung’ of this Regional Unit.

As the erstwhile talker said, the superior assemblage is the main pillar of improvement and endurance of our islands. Livestock farming and sportfishing are 2 cardinal areas that indispensable beryllium supported. We indispensable springiness incentives for radical to stay, to rise their children, and ideally, for the children to proceed surviving connected the islands.

Mr. Prime Minister, you recognize that the biggest occupation successful the bluish and northeastern Aegean islands is the demographic issue. This is thing we present enactment connected the array astatine the commencement of our discussion. I deliberation determination are ideas and proposals that we privation you to perceive and see successful the wider program to code this problem, truthful that together, successful cooperation, we tin find a solution.”

Earlier, the Prime Minister visited the afloat renovated Archaeological Museum of Lemnos, wherever helium was guided by Pavlos Triantafyllidis, caput of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos. The museum, inaugurated connected August 2, adopts a modern museological attack and integer applications, offering a “living” narration of Limnos’ civilization and past from prehistory to the Roman period.

Later, Mitsotakis walked done the Myrina market, wherever helium spoke with concern owners and residents, and besides visited the Lemnos aged attraction portion “The Good Samaritan.”