The Minister of Foreign Affairs sent a message to all directions on sovereignty issues from the Parliament George Gerapetritis.
Responding to a topical question and a few days before the visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to Athens, the Greek Foreign Minister pointed out that Greece, when passing the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, indicated its unilateral right to expand its territorial waters waters in the context of the exercise of sovereignty. “This is an issue concerning Greek sovereignty and these issues will not be included in any dialogue about Greek-Turkish. Our sovereignty concerns only Greece,” he said.
“The expansion of territorial waters will be done in the prescribed manner in the context of exercising national sovereignty. And there is no secrecy there. Dialogue is a necessary element of diplomacy. It is obvious that we are not going to agree on everything with Turkey. We have a different starting point. Any discussion on defining an EEZ will only take place under the full condition that it will be done in full respect of international law and that this is our one and only difference”, underlined Mr. Gerapetritis, adding that there is no discrepancy between its executives governing majority and the members of the government for national affairs.
In his rebuttal, Mr. Gerapetritis reminded that the borders of the country were determined in 1947. Since then, the expansion of Greek territory for the first time was carried out by the government of the New Democracy in 2021 with the extension to Tainaro. “It was the N.D. government that raised Greece. And he grows her every day by increasing her diplomatic capital. We have absolutely no phobic syndrome. The government is not afraid. And I would like the Parliament to not have any phobic syndrome either”, he emphasized.
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