‘We have a very constituted policy in terms of Libya And the results will be seen, ”the foreign minister said George Gerapetritis Referring to the latest developments. Speaking to the Open TV station, Mr. Galpetritis said that under any treaty, Greece would not accept a breach of sovereign rights, while describing Libya as “a country of special circumstances” in the sense that it is divided into two, it has practically two governments, and is in conditions.
“The recognized government of Western Libya is under great pressure from naughty troops. So it’s a country that has very great difficulties. What we have tried in the last two years is to upgrade our relationship with both sides, so that we have a balanced attitude. Because with Western Libya we had reached a point where there was no good relationships. We were led, in 2019 at invalid and non -existent Turkolibyyan memorandum. So what we said, is that we have to build a capable relationship with both sides, ”said Gerapetritis.
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He added that right now, our country has managed to have a satisfactory functional relationship with both sides, something that – as he said – had not had in the past. According to him, this practically means that Greece is the only European country, which today can speak at the highest level on both sides of Libya. He noted that there is a good functional relationship, which is reflected as follows: “First, while we had in fact high migratory flows from time to time by Tobrouk’s axis, that is, from Eastern Libya, at the moment these flows have been minimized thanks to good cooperation. Secondly, the Western Libyan government, with the signing of the invalid and non -existent Turkish -tourious memorandum in 2019, created a situation that violates international law. ” He also stressed that “today we are in the position of talking to Western Libya, so that we can proceed with a delimitation between Greece and Libya. That is to say, what provides for international law. Greece with Libya has direct coasts that Turkey does not have. And on the issue of Eastern Libya, we never cut the channels, the channels were still existing. You saw, I think, how I was accepted by both Eastern Libya and Western Libya in my recent visits. There will be visits to Libyan officials in the future, the links have not been broke. “
Concerning Libya’s attitude towards Greece and the announcement of land, he said that they are south of our middle line and since the Mediterranean is raining 21 countries every country can theoretically have any aspirations in its exclusive economic zone. “Critical is the field. In the field, then, I have to tell you that Libya respected the Greek midline, ”he said.
Mr. Gerattitis has made it clear that our country will not allow its sovereign rights to be violated and stressed:
“Under any treaty, Greece will not accept a violation of sovereign rights. Libya in the call of the plots respected the Greek midline. For this reason I think it is obvious that Greece can impose its claims. You know, we often discuss a little abstract. There is a real staging in the chessboard. We are at this time at the worst moment when the post -war world has experienced. You said it right, in the 80th anniversary of the postwar world, there has been no time to have so many open fronts, to have so many leaders, which lead to rearrangements, to have, in fact, so many conditions that have a revisionist character. In this field, Greece has a very powerful imprint and I often hear the ease with which everyone says that “but in Libya this has happened”. Nothing has happened in Libya. The following has happened in Libya: Greece for the first time issued a marine spatial planning. “
“Greece will not give up any rights”
Greece is not going to abandon any rights, which derives from international law, said by Mr. Galpetritis and pointed out that our country “will exercise all its rights in the field, under any treaty, having the alliances it has”.
The Foreign Minister said this is a consequence of the “more general political upgrading of Greece’s geopolitical position in the Mediterranean” and referring to the Turkish claims, he said they were theories of 10, 20 and 30 years old and are not today.
“But Greece today is in a much better position than it was two years ago. If we sit at the table at the moment and evaluate Greece’s position then, and Greece’s position today is in an infinitely better position. I say it directly, honestly towards Greek citizens. Today Greece is in a much better position. “