The countdown to the return of research vessels to the east of Kassos and Karpathos began in order to proceed again for the activities for the Greece – Cyprus Electric Interconnection (Great Sea Interconnector).

According to well -informed sources cited by “Kathimerini”, the procedure leading to the advertisement of the Navtex ad, which announces the coordinates and the timing of the planned activity, has already been implemented.

The procedure is stable, as it begins with a request for approval by the body implementing the project to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, if approved, promotes it to the Ministry of National Defense, and in particular to the Navy’s Hydrographic Service (PN), which undertakes the design of the map.

Expected with interest How will it move and the ship that will take over the restart of work. Since “IEVOLI Relume” appears anchored in the Netherlands in recent weeks, probably the call will be made for the “NG Worker”, which was open yesterday off the port of Messina in Italy.

Preparations

One of the reasons why the activation of investigations was postponed to April was the availability of the ships. Since, however, procedures that have been activated on the basis of the usual timetable proceeds, investigations into international waters east of Kassos and Karpathos could start even before the end of next week. There are preparations at various levels.

As the “Kathimerini” revealed last Sunday, the restart of investigations has been moved for several days from the highest political level and has reached a service, as the Armed Forces are already planning a plan to protect investigations in the event of an attempted obstacles.

This information comes shortly afterwards and the sidelines on the sidelines of the informal NATO meeting in Brussels by Foreign Ministers George Gerapetritis and Hakan Fidan, who, as shown by the official leaks, essentially agreed that the next Supreme Council Erdogan is postponed in any case after Easter.

The two ministers, however, have already agreed on their next appointment (May 14-15 at NATO’s next informal ministerial meeting) and a mission of Greek businessmen in early May to Constantinople. It is worth noting that the Gerapetritis – Fidan Diavlos has been operating repeatedly the previous period, either used for trivial cases or for more serious.

Athens and Ankara have diametrically diametrically Opposite views on electrical interfacewhich the Greek side considers as a result of the exercise of an absolutely self -evident right to any state that attempts to operate in the high seas.

On the contrary, as it was already seen last July, Ankara considers that this region touches its sensitive interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, therefore should have any activity, even the one that does not concern the continental shelf, to have the permission of Turkey, who also cited the Turkish and the 20th.