A series of transparency measures in the equipment was presented to Parliament by the Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendiasclosing the process of informing the body by the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
1-The disclaimer of the privilege, the Director General of Equipment, to be a person of the minister’s choice. As Mr Dendias said, and the leader and the second were people chosen by the minister. And of course there were people whom the minister chose outside. I chose a permanent officer who was indicated by the GEHEA. And the second class is also a permanent officer whom he also chose to me.
2-There will be a provision that will come to vote, with which there will now be State Legal Adviser to the Directorate -General for Equipmentwho will also participate in the negotiations of the equipment systems.
3-Will the way the Directorate-General for Equipment will be staffed. There will be long -term officersnot 2 and 3 years old officers, so that they can gain experience in negotiations, highly specialized issues.
4-Infusion of the Internal Affairs Service of the Ministry of National Defense. We are amending the Presidential Decree of the Establishment and Operation of the Internal Affairs Committee. We are already in the process of signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Independent Public Revenue Authority so that the Ministry of Defense’s Home Affairs Service will obtain know -how and methods of modern control wherever you have accounts, accounts etc
5-We place a military prosecutor in the internal affairs service and we give it the possibility of removing bank secrecy for the people it is investigating. The same will apply to the Hellenic Center for Defense Innovation (ELKAK). That is, anyone who manages public money in any way will have a sophisticated control mechanism for him.
6-Standing Equipment Committee will be informed every semester: As long as I am at least, we will make it compulsory. Every six months I will come with the leaders and we will be informed of the evolution of all programs. Also, as soon as we cross the equipment, we will take an initial meeting with which you will find out about all the previous equipment to come. That is, what had been signed in the past and are still evolving. To know, out of the 28 billion you see, more than $ 11 billion have already been made available. I want you to know where they are allocated and what these contracts are doing.
7-also, I will download the level of activation of the article on Committee’s opinion, from 30 million to 10 million euros. And the Ministry of National Defense will always be at your disposal for anything you judge, for any amount
OR first government that has filed ten years of equipment
At the same time, National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias recalled that, although “the country’s obligation to have a long -term program of defense equipment, it was legislated in 2010” since then, “no decade has been filed. It is the first time in which it is deposited. And it’s a major issue of transparency. [. . . ] Because so, the Parliamentary Committee of Equipment, and with it the Hellenic Parliament, knows exactly what the government is planning and fully knows the fiscal space that the government intends to use. ” As he said, “it is the first government to have submitted ten -year equipment, which has already sent to the Greek Parliament for a month. And he expects when the committee will meet to discuss it. “
Achilles’ shield
As for what the government proposes in this regard, Mr Dendias said that on a issue that is “existential for the country, we propose a comprehensive, complete approach to defenders. First of all a complete change of doctrine. [. . .] We stop the logic that the Aegean is defended by the fleet. And we go to a completely different logic, with “Achilles’ shield, which the Aegean, and all the territory, against rockets, against airplanes, against shrubs, against boats and against submarines, is now a much more complex, much more complicated system. Intelligence, and “command and control”.
From then on, the minister added, the fleet is liberated, especially the new fleet ships, to act as strategic deterrence weapons, and so is the airplanes, the Rafal and the Mirage, which can bring strategic weapons.
Mr Dendias also responded to opposition criticism of the new structure of the Armed Forces. “The Greek Parliament has been informed for a long time. I informed her. And there are practical for that. Remember it. To the Foreign and Defense Committee, as provided by the Regulation. And the new structure, which was implemented by the closure of the camps and the merger of the units, passed by this Commission. I had said all this. I had also said that the surplus that would come out of it would be distributed as a dividend to the officers and officers of the Armed Forces because the salaries we give cannot withstand any criticism. ” Referring to the “picture of the clever that,” in our days “they did not leave and leave” in your days “, it has an obvious answer. I had given it 100 times. When in the days of the questioner, unemployment was 30%, of course no one leaves. But now we have to go to 9%. This was approved by the prime minister, I did not present it as a party triumph of the New Democracy.
Camp closure has a political cost
He also commented on the dozens of parliamentary questions that have been submitted to closure camps: “If we are, to be liked, to maintain camps anywhere, the country is not going to go ahead. Closing camp, as you know, has a political cost. And to make crises, and to demobilize about 2,000 officers has a political cost. But what existed was much more unacceptable. When in the organic positions of the Greek Army, the forecast was for 568 colonels and with the degeneration we had reached 1,810, did this serve the country’s faith? Am I the one I have questioned the country’s honorable? Or those who allowed the thing to get there? ” Mr. Dendias wondered and continued: Is there an army on this planet that the ratio of officers is one by one? You are not obliged to know it, but the normal ratio is one to nine he said and said: I do not say why I want to exert any criticism. I say this because we have an existing threat against us. Is it ever possible with these conditions to allow ourselves any relaxation? Finally, he assured that this equipment is complete, and starts with the clothing of the soldier, which is not a “outfit” because it has sensors and methods of communication – it is one of another era – and is a Greek program (268 million) and can take it and will take it only. (The equipment starts with it, and goes to the most advanced systems, for example the satellite. Greek citizens will be a substantial possibility and not just a verbal formulation ‘in the context of House meetings.
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