Dendias: We formulated a national strategy to preemptively prevent the implementation of the revised standard

“We formulated a multifactorial national strategy and formulated a possibility of diplomatic, economic, military strengthening of our homeland, to prevent in advance any thought of implementing the revisionist model, which is growing on the eastern side of the Aegean and which is being broadcast against us almost on a daily basis, as an acute threat”. This was emphasized, among other things, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendiasspeaking today at noon at an event organized in Patras, by the governing committee of the electoral district of Achaia of the ND for the cutting of the New Year’s pie.

In particular, referring in detail to the country’s foreign policy, he said that “the country, the homeland, the government, all of us, had to face the most difficult reality that we have faced at least since 1974 until today” and continued: “Why the differences with Turkey have always existed and were often acute, but even during the Turkish invasion of the Republic of Cyprus in 1974, the crises were limited in time. Attilas 2 was made in August 1974 and in September Konstantinos Karamanlis was talking to Ecevit. What is unprecedented and what is happening now is the duration of the crisis. A crisis that lasts 3.5 years and in which Greece has to operate in an environment where its NATO ally threatens it that night will come. Its NATO ally claims that the islands that have been assigned to it in a series of international treaties are not its own, even if they are inhabited purely by the Greek population. And within them he needs to adapt to an international environment created by the barbaric Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

At the same time, Nikos Dendias pointed out that “we had to implement a foreign policy of broad horizons, beyond the usual geographical boundaries that the representatives of our homeland operated”, adding: “I have been to over 70 countries and 16 of them for the first time for a Greek minister. I have met over 300 of my foreign and other ministerial counterparts, we have strengthened our old friendships and created new understandings.”

All this, he continued, “wasn’t what the official opposition accuses us, sometimes with cautious tones, as traveling diplomacy” adding: “Because there is not only a theoretical expansion of the geopolitical footprint, but also a clear deliverable. I am referring to the 307 international agreements that the country signed during the prime ministership of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Never in the past, from its creation until today, has the Greek state reached even half the number of these agreements. And among these agreements I am particularly proud of the two agreements with Italy and with Egypt for the exclusive economic zones that allowed us for the first time since 1947 to enlarge the Greek territory. And next to them are the two defense agreements with the United States, the defense agreement with France and the defense agreement with the United Arab Emirates.”

As for her defense agreement with FranceNikos Dendias pointed out:

“Greece has been buying weapons from France for a long time, but the first Greek government that succeeded in signing a defense agreement with France with a specific article, where France promises its defense assistance if Greek territory is in danger, is the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.”

Regarding the role of Greece in the Balkans, the foreign minister said that “we have returned to the Balkans” and added: “Greece is the strongest economic and military power in the Balkans, that is why it has a historic mission, it has an obligation to join hands with all its forces the western Balkans and to lead them towards the European family”.

During his speech, Nikos Dendias made special reference to Greece’s role and initiatives at the UN, noting, among other things, the following: “Our country is currently running three campaigns at the same time, namely to be elected a member of the Security Council, where we have already 114 commitments, to be elected for the first time in its history as president of the United Nations General Assembly and to be elected, also for the first time in its history, as a member of the Human Rights Council”. As he pointed out, “anyone understands the huge upgrade that the achievement of these three goals, which we are already quite close to, will mean for the country.”

At another point in his speech, Nikos Dendias said that “many people ask me why we took such a clear position when Russia invaded Ukraine” and explained: “For Greece there was no question. Because anything else, any other attitude, any other tactic would relativize the reaction to the same revisionist argument that we face in the Aegean, every day, every week, every month, for three and a half years now. Some things in life are black and white. The independence of states is black and white. The territorial integrity of states is black and white. International law is black and white. The law of the sea is black and white and we cannot co-sign the relativization of these principles, as the neighbor from the east seeks. It would be our fatal mistake. We would actually be shooting ourselves in the foot.”

Referring then to the upcoming ones Parliamentary Elections, Nikos Dendias said, addressing the participants of the event, that “we must all do our best to convince the Greek society that the ND of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the government, is entitled to a new four-year term” adding: “And we will ask for it this, in principle, in the name of the timeless values ​​of the faction founded by the ethnic leader Konstantinos Karamanlis. The ND is the genuine popular party and cannot be separated from this basic genetic material. We are the party that historically expressed in Greece both the peasantry and the rising strata and the European perspective of the country. And when did we not forget that in this process, despite the sayings and legends of the left, we must be next to the man of daily toil. This is our electorate, these are our social interlocutors, with them we will be re-elected and we will ask for their trust for a new four-year Mitsotakis term”.

He also said that “I am absolutely optimistic about where we will go in the next few years, if the basic parameter of seriousness, hard work and oneness in the face of adversity is maintained” and added: “In crises, as in storms, there is a basic principle. Many cannot hold the helm, there cannot be endless talk about where the ship is going, it is not possible to sail through the storm without a good captain. So we, in view of the choice that Greek society must make in the coming months, submit with all respect before it what we have achieved in the previous three and a half years. We have a clear proposal. This we submit for a new four-year term, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis as prime minister and with a government of the New Democracy”.

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