Clear assurance that there has been no and will not have any official or informal agreement with Turkey that will allow Turkish ships to fish within Greek territorial waters provided the Deputy Foreign Minister Haris Theocharis, in the House.
“In order to avoid misunderstandings or paraphrase on such serious issues, I will categorically answer. So I assure it that there has never been, there is no, nor will there be any agreement, formal or informal, to tolerance of our own in illegal, smuggled or anarchic fishing by Turkish vessels or third -country vessels, ”said Mr. Theoharis.
The Deputy Minister’s response came after a question from the independent MP Thanassis Halkia With reference to recent statements by Minister of Maritime Claus Kikilia who argued that in 2017 the then SYRIZA government, in the context of a negotiation with Turkey to liberate two Greek soldiers, “gave up for some time and we did not check as we owed how the Turkish fishermen were fishing in the area. From then until today there is a permanent dispute in a regime that passed a line permitted for which are territorial waters and if the Turkish trawl are fishing in sea zone us or not. The Port He is obliged to prevent them, arrest and form a case file. “
Mr. Theocharis He stressed that there could be no such agreement and added to another point “Mr. Kikilias is aware of the fishing issues. For my part, as Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs I repetition the national delegation that there was no, there is no way that such agreement with Turkey or any other third state on our sovereign rights will be. “
Christos Bokas