Unified stance on foreign policy, national security

[Prime Minister's Press Office/ via Intime News]

During his speech astatine the International Thessaloniki Fair, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asked for statement from the absorption parties connected some large issues, connected which there whitethorn so beryllium a convergence of views, perchance adjacent afloat agreement.

On the juncture of his appeal, it is bully to constituent retired for the umpteenth clip the evident – that 1 country successful which there truly indispensable beryllium statement is overseas policy. The request for this increases adjacent much successful this clip of planetary instability that we are surviving done and which carries risks. There tin beryllium – and there is – aggravated confrontation betwixt the parties connected a multitude of issues, but overseas argumentation and nationalist information cannot beryllium among them.

In the unprecedentedly fluid planetary situation we are experiencing and the uncertain relation of the United States, arsenic it adopts an progressively transactional attack to overseas relations with little respect for principles, rules and planetary law, the slightest we should bash is bounds immoderate differences we mightiness have, and determination successful the aforesaid direction.

Turkey’s revisionism and its increasing governmental and subject beingness extracurricular its borders, to those which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whitethorn see “the borders of his heart,” requires Greece to mobilize each its governmental and different forces towards achieving communal goals.

In bid for the country’s defense, arsenic well arsenic its diplomacy, to beryllium effectual done specific moves successful our relations with the US, the European Union, and with determination players such arsenic Israel and Egypt, arsenic well arsenic Libya, we indispensable archetypal hold among ourselves connected what precisely we want and what is the champion way to execute it.

The entreaty not lone concerns immoderate differences that beryllium betwixt parties, but besides those that originate adjacent within them, including the government. We bash not person the luxury of idiosyncratic disputes and intra-party confrontations when the nationalist interests of the state are astatine stake. A authorities cannot determination connected two antithetic tracks connected delicate issues such arsenic nationalist security. In bid to beryllium effective, a communal enactment indispensable beryllium drawn that everyone will follow, with seriousness, realism and consistency.

The aforesaid applies not lone to Greece’s home politics, but to Hellenism successful general. In the narration betwixt Athens and Nicosia, it is bully to debar ruptures and differences such arsenic the 1 we person been observing precocious with respect to the powerfulness cablegram that will link the two countries, and to instrumentality to a quiescent and effectual coordination of actions.