“The need to respect good neighborhood and international law contained my message in Turkish, I was apologized to the recent Greek -Turkish business forum in Istanbul, “the Undersecretary of State said Tasos Hatzivasiliou From the step of the House, in response to a criticism of the President of the Greek Solution, Kyriakos Velopoulos.
“15 days ago I was in Constantinople to address the Greek -Turkish business forum, where the language language is – as always – English. And during my ten -minute speech in English, I decided to address the Turkish for 20 seconds, sending an indifferent message to the Turkish attendees that it is important and necessary by them to respect good neighborhood and international law. “Twenty seconds of Turkish in a ten -minute English speech, exclusively, to send this undesirable message,” the Deputy Foreign Minister said.
In Mr. Velopoulos’s report on his presence at the University of Ankara, where he has taught as a researcher, Mr. Hatzivasiliou said that “young scientists, when we do a doctoral dissertation, is teaching, to teach the universities. As I did, for a month at that university. So very much, I do not allow anyone to leave implications for my patriotism or the sense of responsibility I have. “
For his part, Mr. Velopoulos said that his former words had no personal peak. “Just boils the internet” and you had to clarify it. He expressed the view that (intervening in Turkish) was not elegant, because the days were a little weird, shortly before May 19th, to do so. [. . .] In any case, who is a patriot who is a traitor, you will never hear them. But let me tell you something else. From actions and words we all judge. And from what we say and defend. “