“To make it clear both in Turkey and in Libya that this memorandum has no actual practical and legal value”
The prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Coming to the summit in Brussels, he mentioned the following:
“The European Council, which begins shortly, takes place shortly after the NATO summit, which has decided a drastic increase in defense spending on a decade for all parts of the alliance. It is natural, therefore, that to a large extent foreign policy issues will monopolize our interest, I will have the opportunity to refer to the permanent Greek positions in terms of our wider region, the Middle East, the need to maintain a truce that was achieved between Iran and Israel, so that it is all Iran and Israel. I will reiterate the Greek government’s firm position again that it is now the time to bring back to public debate the issue of truce, the immediate truce in Gaza while simultaneously liberating all hostages to stop this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
We will also refer to the issues that have to do with Syria. We will condemn the European Council to hope for the disgusting terrorist attack that took place a few days ago with the aim of Greek Orthodox Christians and to send a clear message to the Syrian transitional government that we demand the protection of all religious minorities. “
The prime minister also said that “and of course we will also be concerned with issues related to Libya, in which Libya intersects foreign policy and immigration policy priorities. That. I would like to express my satisfaction with the fact that the President of the European Commission responded immediately, the European Commissioner, together with ministers from Italy, Greece and Malta, will be in the eastern and western Libya in early July so that we can convey the message to the Libyan authorities. As you know, Greece has already mobilized the armed forces so that there is a mission of surveillance of the Libyan authorities outside the Libyan territorial waters, thereby sending a clear message that we want, we demand to work with the Libyan authorities so that they do the water. “
The prime minister also referred to the Turkish Memorandum: “Greece will also ask for and I believe that it will succeed in the conclusions explicit references to the illegal Turkolibyan Memorandum of 2019. We consider that the repetition of this European message is absolutely essential. in order to make it clear both in Turkey and in Libya that this memorandum signed has virtually no practical and legal value. “
In addition, Mr Mitsotakis said: “At the same time we will also discuss issues that have to do with European competitiveness. We will once again emphasize the issues of energy, how Europe can and should have more accessible energy, how the European energy market for all consumers will work better, how we will increase the penetration of RES so that we can become more self -sufficient and not be dependent on precise imports of hydrocarbons. We support any efforts by the European Commission is moving on the logic of simplifying and restricting European bureaucracy that creates a very major competitiveness problem in all European businesses. “
