“The assumption of his status Non-Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council represents an important opportunity for the real upgrading of Greece’s position and role in a constantly changing and increasingly uncertain international environmentDimitris Manzos, the head of PASOK-Movement for Change’s KTE Foreign Office, says in a statement.

He emphasizes that “however, it also constitutes a very serious obligation for our country, to formulate and implement a real principled foreign policy, without reservations or asterisks. With an unequivocal commitment to international law and international humanitarian law, as well as to the peaceful resolution of disputes».»

Mr. Manzos states that “with its new role, which gives it not only increased possibilities but also a high duty, our country must take initiatives to respect and implement the decisions of the Security Council for the solution of the Cyprus Issue by ending the fifty-year Turkish occupation, for de-escalating the crisis in the Middle East, with the implementation of the two-state solution – Palestine and Israel – and a new inclusive regime in Syria, for ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, without the justification of revisionist forces at the borders of Europe, for the defense of International Justice and its institutions, for the consolidation of democracy and the rule of law in the Balkan region».

He notes that “in the end, the emergence of Greece at the center of the international community is not only a question of international roles but, above all, of a visionary strategy and a stable policy of principles and values».