N. Dendias: Greece is not an enemy of anyone – We always stand by the side of international law

“Our policy in Ukraine is based on three basic principles: humanitarian law, the territorial integrity of states on the Charter of the United Nations and cooperation with our allies and others in NATO and the EU,” said Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias. before the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs.

At the moment, the Consul General of Greece, Manolis Androulakis, is now near the city of Berstians on the way to Zaporizhia, the minister informed and stressed that both the ambassador Frangiskos Kostellenos and the consul in Odessa, Dimitris Dochoutsis, ” diplomatic corps “with what they have done. He stressed that these days “what is and is not possible has been done, humanely, to the Ukrainian authorities, and to the Russian authorities (who attacked the city and created casualties to the civilian population), and to the Red Cross, the OSCE, but also in the Catholic Church that supplied fuel and food for the last three days the accommodation that was our consul Mr. Androulakis, along with 120 other people in the shelter of the building “.

The minister focused on the principles of humanitarian law, as he said, “the scenes broadcast by the television lens are dramatic and can only cause horror to every human being.” The Russian invasion creates tragedies, “to date we have 2,800,000 refugees from Ukraine” and in it there is a Greek community on the shores of the Black Sea, who “mourned and mourns victims.” The absolute number of victims, the minister said “will be after the end of this tragedy”.

Mr. Dendias stated that our country has co-signed the request to the International Court of Justice for the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russia. He stressed that “Greece has succeeded in being a strong country, a country that operates in an understanding with a number of other countries, which believes in principles and values ​​and which it implements with its policy. We are not a country that has a policy a Greece is not an enemy of anyone, it answers the questions posed in foreign policy on the basis of the principles and values ​​that it as a society, as a people, as a national existence at its core “We are doing this. We are always on the side of international law, we consider this to be in our interest and one step further: that this is the right thing to do.”

Greek-Turkish

Referring to the Prime Minister’s meeting with the President of Turkey, he said that “Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accepted the invitation of President Erdoάνan and I think we all agree, or almost all of us, that he accepted it correctly. It was an informal meeting. “Mitsotakis had the sensitivity, despite the informal meeting, to inform all political leaders.” The Foreign Minister stated that, since the meeting was informal, there can be no conclusions, agenda, or minutes, but stressed that “the Greek Prime Minister, like every prime minister in the course of the country’s history, observed the absolute positions of the Greek foreign policy “. Responding to remarks by opposition lawmakers, Dendias said: “We have all agreed over time that the lines of communication should exist and alas if we stop talking. This does not mean, in any way, that we share Turkish views.” , you know very well that Greece and Turkey in terms of our perception, have a difference – and this is the subject of discussion: The continental shelf and the definition of the EEZ in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. “With Turkey. The rest, not to be misunderstood, concerns Turkey.”

It is noted that today’s meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament, concerned the ratification of an agreement with the United Arab Emirates, for cooperation in foreign policy and defense.

The agreement with the United Arab Emirates

This agreement, stressed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is part of the exercise of our foreign policy, which is analyzed in circles and zones of contact, communication and understanding with a large number of countries. And it moves even more promoted and energetically, on the basis of principles and values ​​that our foreign policy has always had. We took advantage of a window of opportunity, he explained, but we also saw the new architecture of the area correctly – and this agreement is a result of the insight of our foreign policy.

Answering the question whether this agreement with the UAE will work in case Turkey attacks us, Mr. Dendias first answered that “it is not directed against anyone and is in favor of the states and peoples that co-sign it” but called on the deputies to recall that “when the Turkish fleet was in the Eastern Mediterranean, at Chania airport there were four F-16 Blook 60 UAEs with 130 personnel” adding meaningfully, that “the worst that can happen to a country and a people, is to forgets or does not notice… “.

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