With maritime spatial plan to be announced this morning, Shortly before the KYSEA meeting at Maximus Mansion, it was a given that the issue would be on the agenda of the government. Hence the meeting was attended, in addition to Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, and the relevant Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou.
According to intersected information from protothema.gr, after the initial update made to attendees by Mr. Gerapetritis and the note that the deposition of maps and rationale extends to hundreds of pages in the Commission has been a product of preparation for several weeks and not reaction to Turkish map leak in Milliyet newspaper, The scenarios of the Turkish reaction were evaluated.
According to the same information line, in Athens they consider that The prevailing potential are two. The first is to have a verbal reaction On the part of the relevant Ministries of the neighbor, which will then be widely reproduced in the neighboring media, along with the map that has already been presented and displayed half the Aegean as an environment of Turkish claims.
The second scenario is Ankara to seek to look for an international forum, Obviously a relevant or less relevant organization in order to submit its map and seek some legalization of its claims, given that Greece submits maritime spatial planning in the Commission.
Turkey’s first reaction
However, shortly after 16:00, there was the first reaction from Ankara. The Turkey’s Foreign Ministry characterizes Athens’ actions “unilateral”, which “violate Turkey’s maritime jurisdiction in both the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean”, while pointing out that Ankara “will submit its own UNESCO and UN bodies”.
Members of KYSEA, with whom protothema.gr discussed, estimate that Turkey will not be happy at all, but are waiting at the same time to see how much it will escalate its answer. “The major issue is not to return to a state of controversy,” said a responsible source. For Athens it is a given that Turkey knew that Greece would deposit the map, as it was its contractual obligation following the decision of the European Court at the end of February that gave our country to the end of April to take the necessary “treatment” of the previous maps. It is also recalled that about two weeks ago in Brussels, George Gerapetritis and Hakan Fidan had met in Brussels.
Politically, however, government officials have been interested in the “silence” of the right for several hours, as the reactions are poor. “We are defending national interests in practice,” government sources torn in the morning, while Adonis Georgiadis’ placement was interesting with an indirect nail on the “right” of the ND, noting that “while others speak and accuse us of the government of Kyriakos.”
KYSEA’s announcement
“The National Security Council of National Security (KYSEA) met today under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
During the meeting, Foreign Ministers George Gerapetritis and Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou was briefed on the National Strategy for the Marine Area and the training and specialization of marine spatial planning.
The long-term planning of defense equipment of the Armed Forces for the period 2025-2036 was also discussed and approved. ‘