M. Varvitsiotis: Greeks should not be divided in the face of Turkish propaganda

“I don’t think there is currently a majority of Greeks who would like us to return to times when the country’s borders were unguarded, we accepted anyone who passed and we made no effort to guard the borders or prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country,” said the Deputy Minister Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, speaking today to the radio station “Athens 984” and the mayor Yiannis Lavranos.

Mr. Varvitsiotis noted that today’s KYSEA meeting examines the increased pressure our country is under on the Evros and the best ways to guard our land borders, stressing that Greece is doing what its humanitarian duty imposes on it and all international conventions: He leaves no man whose life is in danger to die. He emphasized at the same time that this does not mean that we can act on Turkish soil and that we will unprovokedly accept the instrumentalization of the migrant stream by Turkey.

The Deputy Minister also pointed out that on Turkey’s side there is a tendency to create issues that could escalate relations between us, which makes us particularly cautious and cautious. He even noted that there have been many recent incidents that divide Greeks in the face of Turkish propaganda. For this reason, he advised us to be cool in such situations.

Finally, Mr. Varvitsiotis described the discovery of the natural gas field in plot 6 of the Cyprus EEZ as a “great development”, pointing out that there is concern on the part of Nicosia about Ankara’s reaction.