PM: Greece will never discuss sovereignty issues with Turkey

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has reiterated that Greece does not entity to referring the contented of the delimitation of its exclusive economical zone (EEZ) with Turkey to the International Court, providing that the neighboring state recognizes that there is lone a single disagreement betwixt the two countries.

“Greece will ne'er sermon either issues oregon demilitarization or, obviously, grey zones oregon sovereignty issues. For arsenic agelong arsenic these issues stay connected the table, the harder it will beryllium to resoluteness our large difference, which is the delimitation of maritime zones, that is, of the EEZ and the continental shelf,” Mitsotakis told ANT1, successful his archetypal television interrogation since the Thessaloniki International Fair.

Referring to the Turkish oceanographic vessel Piri Reis and Wednesday’s interbranch workout of the Greek Armed Forces, the premier curate underlined that helium would similar to “convey a connection of calmness to each Greek citizens. The exercises we are conducting are each scheduled. We ever clasp them this clip of the year, betwixt September 15 and 20.”

The Government Council for National Security (KYSEA) had discussed the Piri Reis and “we person not yet seen immoderate question successful the field, but it is not something that greatly concerns us,” helium said.

The premier underlined that “we will ever question to person unfastened dialog, sincere conversation, with Turkey, but we will ever convey our stance confidently and sure that planetary instrumentality supports us.”

Asked astir the anticipation of a gathering with Turkish President Recep Erdogan successful New York adjacent week connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Mitsotakis said “this imaginable does not yet exist. The volition is there connected some sides to find time.”

Addressing home economical issues, Mitsotakis said that citizens will announcement the results of the measures helium announced astatine the Thessaloniki Fair successful January done a simplification successful taxes and, by extension, an summation successful income.

Regarding the difficulties successful the lodging market, the premier said that the authorities has decided to refund rent to tenants, has placed restrictions connected the Golden Visa and that incentives are being prepared to incentivize a bid of programs to enactment closed apartments connected the rental market.

On the OPEKEPE workplace subsidies scandal, Mitsotakis said that while it was the government’s work “to enactment this enactment successful order, we did not succeed … That is why we were forced to take very drastic measures and fundamentally abolish OPEKEPE and to transfer it to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue.”

On immigration, helium said the authorities would determine aboriginal adjacent period whether to widen a three-month suspension of asylum procedures.

He besides said the adjacent wide predetermination will take spot successful spring 2027 and that there will beryllium nary alteration to the electoral law.