THE Bob Menendez closed the door “abruptly” on Turkey for the F-16, while he also expressed the his disagreement with the non paper by State Department for East Medstressed o Professor of International Relations and Member of Parliament for ND, Dimitris Kairidis who sat down to dinner with him powerful Democratic senator and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Mr. Kairidis stood out in three places referred to by Mr Menendez:
- Separate her “Charm attack” of Tayyip Erdogan from the substance. He said that obviously the Turkish president is under pressure, but in fact nothing is changing, we must be very careful and we will not allow him to use the Ukrainian crisis. According to Mr. Kairidis, the Senator said “We are here to defend principles and anyone who does not understand the administration (US government) has a bad head.”
- Mr Menendez said the only commission in America that could blocks arms export sales, is his and everythingAs long as he is president, Turkey should forget even the upgrade of the F-16s. “Menendez closed the door,” he said.
- The Senator, right abruptly completely separated his position and the position of the committee, from the non-paper of the State Department for the East Med pipeline. He said that for himself, all options are on the table, nothing is closed and the Ukrainian crisis restores the need for East Med because independence from Russian gas is more necessary than ever. He added that the commerciality of the plan would obviously be judged because investors would have to be found, but it was essentially wrong what the State Department did.
“I have not heard in all these years someone (an American official) take such clear distances from Turkey, a Turkey that has spent a lot of time and effort all this time to restore relations in America,” said Mr. Karidis. .
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