The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ discussion with Francis Fukuyama in the context of the 27th annual “Economist Government Roundtable” conference, at the Athenaeum Intercontinental, which lasted about an hour, was extremely interesting.
The Prime Minister clarified Greece’s position in the Middle East, insisted on the need to maintain a positive climate in Greece’s rapprochement with Turkey – despite the fact that, he said, Erdogan is on the wrong side of history, as long as he refuses to condemn Hamas’s stance – and noted that the ministers of his government will also be judged by their degree of compliance with the requirements of the Recovery Fund.
Among other things, Mr. Mitsotakis pointed out the need to learn from the war in Ukraine, as well as from the armed conflict in the Middle East, so that states have the military capability and strength to defend their territorial sovereignty, as well as the EU to spend more resources to defend European territories.
Explaining why Greece abstained from the resolution at the UN, the Prime Minister underlined that it aligned itself with most of the European Union.
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“We stated the obvious, Israel must defend itself based on international law and we ask all sides for humanitarian aid, even humanitarian pauses in hostilities” he underlined and added: “We tried to amend the resolution, but we did not succeed to pass our positions and that’s why we decided to abstain”.
Asked if there is a path to “Greek diplomacy”, Mr. Mitsotakis said that we were one of the three EU countries that participated in the Egypt Summit, while he himself visited Israel.
“We have a strategic relationship with Israel, but also good relations with countries in the region. We are objective as far as our overall policy is concerned” he emphasized and added, “there can be a solution, that of two states”.
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