In their joint announcement, PASOK Change Foreign Officer Dimitris Mantzos, and Environment Officer Manolis Christodoulakis, condemned Turkey’s announcement of the creation of creation. ‘Marine Parks’ in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterraneanexcept for Turkish territorial waters. The two divisions characterized the action as ‘Dangerous escalation of Turkish review strategy’ And as an attempt to create new ones.
PASOK stresses that Greece should not tolerate these illegal initiativeswhich have no legal force. The party calls on the Greek government not to be limited to announcements, but to immediately internationalize the issue in institutions such as the European Union, UNESCO and the UN. It also points out that environmental protection cannot be used as ‘Proposal of violating international law of the sea’.
Finally, PASOK reiterates its call to speed up the implementation of Greece’s national maritime parks and elsewhere in the Aegean, stressing that national sovereignty and protection of the marine environment are not negotiable.