The conditions shaped by the latest developments and affect geopolitics in the Middle Eastern region and the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean were at the center of the debate that the former US ambassador to Greece, Article Miller, the ambassador ET had. of Greece and former Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs George Paraskevopoulos and the Director of the Institute of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations Konstantinos Filis with journalist Athanasios Ellis as part of yesterday’s second day of this year’s “Dialogues”.
G. Paraskevopoulos explained that the conflict of Israel and Iran “was a given for many and objective reasons that it could not be a winner” while describing “the US intervention after many decades in the Middle East”. He pointed out that “Iran no longer has allies” (after developments in Syria) but emphasized that “Iran is not Iraq, it has a huge area and 85 million washed”.
On the conflict of Iran with Israel, Mr. Paraskevopoulos said “that the war was unusual as we had no clashes on the ground.”
“There are two possibilities ahead,” he continued talking about developments in the Middle East, and analyzed: “One is that all this liquidation is dangerous. The Middle Eastern map remains the same since the time that was engraved with the only differentiation of the Turks’ invasion of Alexandre. So, this favors Turkey on the basis of its claims. The second possibility, in my view, is how to tow Iran with an agreement on the issue of nuclear. “
“Greece,” he made clear, “has two strong shapes, cooperation with Israel and Egypt.”
For his part, Konstantinos Filis expressed the view that “there is a tendency to shrink globalization in favor of so -called peripheralization” and explained that “there are regional schemes or countries where the US has reduced interest in a number of reasons.” “These forces have ambitions that are superior to their potential but at a regional level they can have a very significant influence,” said Mr. Filis, putting Russia, Iran and Turkey as an example.
Specifically for the Greek -Turkish, Mr. Filis estimated that “Trump’s governance is less interesting to get involved” by not acting “before, that is, a possible crisis” as opposed to his predecessors, who he said, “when they saw a crisis.”
“Trump,” he said, “works more with the instinct in foreign policy and with personal interest, whether they are agreements or something different that links to the national interest.” “Usually,” he added, “this is a practice followed by authoritarian leaders. They link their personal opinion with the National so that anyone who goes against them is considered to be an enemy of the nation. “
For the Turkish Memorandum, Mr. Filis emphasized that Greece “will have this agreement in its neck”. As he said, the reason is that Turkey, Greece’s usurped rights with Turkish and Cyprus with agreements proposing in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, “offers a larger economic zone in these countries than they would be entitled to if they made legal agreements”.
“So,” he wondered, “which Libyan leader will dare to change the illegal agreement with Turkey to make an agreement with Greece, which will be legal but will remove a financial zone from Libya?”
The former US ambassador to Athens, Arthur Miller, has assumed that the changes we are experiencing are important and large saying that “a conference in Greece would be about twenty years ago, and now, for Israel, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria.
“Some will attribute it to energy. Personally, I think something else is changing, “he said and analyzed:” Three things are changing. First, traditional political structures in the western world change. Secondly, the ideas and policies of the past are now perceived by the world as inefficient. And third, the populists do not have to have clear policies. “
“In Greece,” Mr Miller said, “people rejected political parties a few years ago, traditional policies. We saw it happen. “
The “Nisyros Dialogues” were organized from July 3 to July 6th on the island of Nisyros on “The Eastern Mediterranean in the vortex of geopolitical changes”.
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