The deafening silence is unheard of when it comes to the Greek government, the foreign minister commented George Gerapetritisanswering, earlier today, to a timely question by the President of the New Left Alexis Haritsi on “Greece’s deafening silence and inaction as a non -permanent member of the UN Security Council for Genocide in Genocide in Palestine” “Greece was the expedited country that gathered 80 UN Member States has not happened during this tragedy of Palestinian, 80 countries, at the initiative of the Greek Foreign Minister and a public statement by the Greek Foreign Minister,” Mr Gerapetritis said, and said in the Greek government. Recognition, this is the crucial, this is the useful, we will support it to the end. “
The president of the new Left Alexis Haritsis said that as of January 1, 2025, Greece is a non -permanent member of the UN Security Council, but the Greek government, and in particular the Foreign Ministry, five months after taking the role of the non -permanent member where he continues to attend the role. “There is not a government that is far from critical votes at the UN General Assembly, such as that of December 19, 2024, regarding Israel’s condemnation as a occupation force in the Palestinian territories, at the same time the government tells us that it was not silenced by the crime. It is equivalent to acceptance, is equivalent to the support of the violation of international law, “Mr Haritsis said, and called on the minister to answer what the initiatives the Greek government has taken over the crime, which is committed to Palestine, in Palestine, in relation to the crime. At the expense of Netanyahu, “which Netanyahu rushed to Mr. Mitsotakis to visit him in Israel, in the midst of this genocide.”
“I will tell you very specifically what the Greek government and I have done personally, and I imagine, Mr President, that you do not dispute my personal attitude on the issue of Palestinian,” the Foreign Minister said and said::
-Greece was the first country to be placed for Palestinian, October 9, 2023, in Oman. He submitted a five -point plan that even today, “is the basis of international policy in Palestinian”. “We talked about two states, unhindered humanitarian aid, to protect civilians,” the foreign minister said.
-Greece was among the countries that, in the context of seamless aid, supported the international organization to provide humanitarian aid to Palestine, UNRRA, “when many European countries and other Western countries were opposite”.
-Greece took the initiative, to the EU Council, to submit specific proposals. “My proposal, at the Foreign Affairs Council, was to set up a Standing Committee, between EU Foreign Ministers and the Arab world, for Palestinian, to promote two -state humanitarian aid issues,” Mr Gerapetritis said, and continued: “I was on my own. They-also in the face of many countries-that we supported the Palestinian Authority, when it received enormous attacks on its integrity, because we believe that it expresses the Palestinians who actually suffer from this situation, because we think that there must be an institutional interlocutor.
-1.6 billion with the initiative of states, including Greece, was given to the Palestinian Authority.
-“Initiative of the Greek Government, and my own personally, to take over EU Member States to treat injured children from Gaza. Greece has been hospitalized by Gaza, in hospitals-it was a very difficult task-and the Greek Parliament has decided.
-Greece was the one who provided a specific help to UNRRA, UNICEF, to all Palestinian pockets so that there can be humanitarian aid.
“What is the deafening silence, Mr President?”, The Foreign Minister addressed to the President of the New Left and wondered: “It is a deafening silence that Greece took the initiative under the UN Security Council and gathered the largest majority of states?”
I had the honor, Mr Gerapetritis said, to have the initiative and to make the joint statement of 80 states on May 13 in New York, which concerned the protection of civilians and even in Gaza. “I would like to tell me, Mr President, if you disagree with this statement. The initiative of the Greek Government, which was signed by 80 countries and was announced by the Greek Foreign Minister in New York, at the headquarters of the United Nations. Help, “Mr Gerapetritis said.
“We have a tragedy in front of us and I heard you say that these people suffer from this situation. What is this situation? Tell us what is this situation? Why don’t you say things in their name? Why don’t you say that this situation is a genocide that happens and has someone who is the one who is her He continued: “You are the Foreign Minister of a country, Greece, who always stood on the right side of history. He always standing by law, standing with humanity, standing with international law, defending the peoples, against such situations.
Mr Haritsis called on the Foreign Minister to answer why the prime minister had begun the full exclusion of Gaza from Israel, he chose to meet Benzamin Netanyahu, because Greece was not among the 24 countries that called Israel to allow it to allow it to allow it to allow it to allow it to EU -Israel connection agreement, because it was not in the seven countries that demanded the end of military conflict and removing Gaza exclusion and most importantly, because the government is not taking the initiative to recognize the Palestinian state. “It’s not just a symbolic issue, it’s a matter of substance, it’s a matter that paves the way for a solution to the Palestinian. In this issue you will take the initiative? cease to have a stance of silence and complicity.
“Greece was the speeding country that gathered 80 UN Member States has not happened during this tragedy of the Palestinian, 80 countries, at the initiative of the Greek Foreign Minister and a public statement by the Greek Foreign Minister. You did not tell us a conversation. He has expelled and spoken himself, the Palestinian Authority was signed. Beginning, I visited Ramala twice, I was accepted by both the president and the prime minister. The Palestinian Foreign Minister came here, we are in practice helping UNRRA, in practice UNICEF, in practice the children from Palestine. We caused two discussions under the presidency. For the first time in the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, there were two discussions on the issue of civilian protection, and the issue of gaza and humanitarian aid and the solution of the two states. Who did it? The Greek Presidency “.
When the new left -wing voices were heard about a lack of clarity on the part of the Greek Government (he was outside the microphone), the Foreign Minister said: “When on 15 February 2024, I was honored to visit me by the Palestinian Foreign Minister, We say that this kind of disproportionate attack, which is done, is unacceptable. Scenarios of displacement of populations as well as collective responsibility are categorically unacceptable. The Palestinians should be able to stay in their homes. We strongly support the solution of the two states and the creation of an independent Palestinian state, which will coexist peacefully with Israel, within the international recognized border, based on the line before 1967, and the capital of the Eastern Jerusalem. “
Mr Gerapetritis also said that there was never a vote on the issue of the EU-Israel connection.
“Greece will continue to support the solution of the two states by observing the security conditions for Israel, for a peaceful and prosperous Middle East,” the Foreign Minister said, and informed the National Delegation that Greece will be represented on June 19, noting that “we consider this solution to the two states, this is a solution to the two states. end ”.