Our country is moving to the greatest reform of the armed forces since the constitution of the new Greek state.

This was stressed by the Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendiasspeaking last night, at the DEEP royal pie cutting event. Pieria, in Katerini.

‘The first axis’, He said, is the innovation ‘, while continuing to mention that they should “To bring the country to new technologies, the new features”, but not by buying “ready -made systems from abroad”.

Made reference to the Hellenic Defense Innovation Center, “In order to be able to allow the Armed Forces in innovative drone technologies, anti-Drone, electronic systems, communication systems to transfer them as questions to the Greek Defense Industry, the Greek Defense Ecosystem.”

“And let’s bare the money we spent on our survival, as an investment in the younger generation of Greeks and as an investment in the Greek economy” explained.

The second axis said “are the equipment” while stressing: “On March 4, I will present to the House Committee, for the first time in the history of our country, a 10 plus 10 -year -old equipment program. The equipment program of the next decade and the equipment program with the will of the Greek people of the next 20 years. Because there must be accountability in the House. “

“We want every Greek, every Greek to know where his delay goes, his trouble, his trouble. And we want it to be clear to all parties because this is a national issue, what planning is done by our government to change the reality of the Armed Forces. “ Complete.

Referring to the “Achilles Shield”, the anti -Greek and anti -aircraft dome of Greece, he analyzed that he refers to Achilles’ shield “made by Hephaestus with five different levels”.

“Achilles’ dome we make now to defend our country also has five levels. Anti-missile, anti-Drone, against aircraft, against ships, against submarines, five. To shield our homeland in every way » The Minister of National Defense stressed.

He also talked about “the ambitious programs for the F-35s, the drones, our new ships, our new perception that is most important of all” while we said: “In 2030 Greece will have the most advanced armed armed Forces in the European Union. “

For the third axis, the structure of the Armed Forces, he explained: “We create a flexible structure, a structure with high densities focused on where there is a threat.”

“The old slogan of every city and stage, every village and gym cannot apply to the Greek Armed Forces. The Greek Armed Forces cannot have more camps than the United States Armed Forces have. We had about 830 camps. This is not tolerable, we cannot, we must reform. And I am ready, with the confidence of the Prime Minister, to get all the political costs for it, because this is the interest of our country. “ he said.

For the human resources, he described it as “the greatest multiplier power of our armed forces.”

“Without them there is nothing, neither the most sophisticated systems, nor the best know -how can work.” emphasized.

We are proceeding, he said, in a complete change in the way we work, a complete change in the score, complete change in payroll, “To stand by them we implement the largest residential program that has been implemented again in the history of the Hellenic Republic.”

For defensive diplomacy, he referred to the participation of our country in the “Shields” business, explaining “the interests of Hellenism are not only our close geographical space. It is the sea routes used by our commercial navy, it is the protection of commerce and the level of life of each and each of the Greek citizens. “

He referred to Fredis Belleris, stressing: “With Fredd Beller we are locals. My family left in 1790 after an episode with a Turkalano from a village called Vun of Himara. So with Fredis, the torrent unites us and we are united by the sense of service in our homeland. “

“So I want to talk to you for this homeland. Because in order to live this homeland we must preserve not the formal entity, but the identical elements of the nation that have been operating over time over the centuries. ” added.

For the Greek language, Mr Dendias stressed that “our language is spoken in this place for 3,000 years.”

‘The words’he said, “This language that we use as a tool, but often ignoring its enormous national significance, have a special significance. Because they carry with them like rivers, such as streams, materials from all 3,000 years. And to understand it, to say a word, “NO”.

“NO” explained “for all the languages ​​of this planet is negative.” “For us Greeks ‘NO’ after ’40 has a huge positive importance that looks at the Leonidas ‘Molon Laves’ thousands of years ago. For us, “NO” is the timeless refusal of the Greek race to submit to any invader. “No” every Greek and every Greek has positive, with love, in his heart. “

He added that in other languages ​​the word “air” means nothing at all, but “for us” AIR! ” The mountains of Albania has a completely different meaning and speaks to the heart of each and each of us every October 28. “

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He also referred to Orthodoxy, noting: “Greece is a modern Member State of the European Union. Everyone in Greece has the right to believe that they want, any religion, but no one can prevent Greeks from identifying themselves as Orthodox Christians and telling you something you know when you go out of Greece. Wherever else we are known as Greek Orthodox, as Greek Orthodox, this is our religion and this is the second element of our identity. “

For our tradition, Mr. Dendias emphasized: “You Macedonians and Pontian Hellenism, you know the tradition very well, the dances express it, the music expresses it, the costumes express it. An example to take you. The costume, because I am Minister of National Defense, of the Greek Evzona, who you see him guarding the ‘unknown soldier at the parade every Sunday when we change the guard. Every thing on this costume is a symbolism and a national memory. The red fez is the blood that has been shed for freedom, the fennel fash is 400, it is the 400 years of slavery under the Ottomans before we become free again. And maybe the most bizarre. The sound created by the nails in the tsarouki. Do you know what sound means? It means the sound that the ancestors hear to know that we are still free in the traditions they left us. This is Evzona’s tsarouch. “

He then explained that “maintenance in Greek is something positive.” “The opposite of maintenance in the Greek language is rot, the rot. And the opposite of progress is not maintenance, it is the regression » The Minister of National Defense said.

“Our founder, the Nationalist Constantine Karamanlis, put Greece in Europe just to preserve what we have, to preserve our traditions. To preserve our identity. To preserve our story. Not to transform into a population porridge outside our traditions, outside our history, outside what we love and outside what identifies us. ” Clear.

He also stressed that “We have to deal with the populist forces of populism either from our right or from our left.” and completed:

“And we must maintain our calm word against these forces. A reason full of seriousness that refers to things and what we have offered to the place. And also to explain to Greek society that we, we, the New Democracy, were, we are, we will be the great People’s Party. The party of the man fighting for the paycheck. This is what we are. “

“Our country does not have the fate of Luxembourg. Our country is facing an existential threat. Our homeland is facing a current claim and a current threat of declaration of war against it. What we call Casus Belli. There is no other country on this planet, nor one that faces an existing threat of war from another country if it exercises its legal right such as the expansion of its territorial waters in accordance with the International Convention on the Law of the Sea. There isn’t » Mr. Dendias clarified.

“Greece, of course, believes in the need for consultation with Turkey,” he said and continued: “But, in order to understand, they need two, one does not arrive. And we all know it, Greece does not claim the slightest. But it is not going to give the slightest because this is the constitutional obligation of every Greek citizen. “

The event was also attended by the Deputy Minister of Development and MP of Pieria. Anna Mani-Papadimitriou, MPs also Pieria of ND Xenophon Baraliakos and Spyros Koulkoudina, the MP of the European Parliament prime minister In Thessaloniki Elena Sokou, the ND Organizations Coordinator Central Macedonia Elias Tapras, the President of the Board of Directors P. Pierias of ND Babis Bruskelis, executives of self -government and productive bodies, executives and members of party organizations and more.