“This is a relay. Yiannis Kefalogiannis gives the reform of the reform at Thanassis Davakis on the go, in full move. Thanasis Davakis is probably the best case of a person who has a sense of what we are trying to achieve here and consequently becomes in the shortest possible time a factor in strengthening this reform effort‘

This was underlined by the Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias, who attended today, Saturday, March 15, at the retirement ceremony of the new Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection and former Deputy Minister of National Defense, Yiannis Kefalogiannis Defense.

Attendance were General General Dimitrios Houpis, Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General George Kostidis, Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Dimitrios – Eleftherios Curse PN, Chief of General Staff (I) Director of the Directorate -General for Economic Planning & Support of the Ministry of Finance (O) Panagiotis Stathopoulos, senior and senior officers of the Armed Forces, as well as delegations of executives from the three branches of the Armed Forces.

‘We say goodbye“, Undersecretary of State until yesterday’s National Defense, Yiannis Kefalogiannis, was underlined by Mr. Dendias.

“Giannis was chosen by the prime minister to take over as Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection. Especially in this juncture and with the issues that had been charged, his departure is a loss. But, on the other hand, it is a recognition of the effort he has made for these two years and the project that has already been executed. Because, as you know, we are in a great reform, in a constant move and John was an important part of this effortThe Minister of National Defense stressed.

“Two legislation, in which it had a dominant role, the legislation on the real estate of the Armed Forces and the legislation concerning the general part of the general part and the support of the Armed Forces executives, are already ready.

They have gone through the Council of Ministers and have not been voted on by the Hellenic Parliament due to the delay of the legislative work, but they bear the stamp of its great effort, “he added.

“Also, the work done to upgrade military schools and the creation of the Military School Academy, the effort made for the mandate, for the new term, for the new era. All this is attempts in which John had significant participationMr. Dendias explained.

“His new mission is very important. It is a mission of protecting the life and property of Greek citizens. We all have to wish him good luck in this new effort, to assure him also of the support that the Ministry of National Defense is providing to the ministry in which John is now going. The knowledge he has acquired here, I think, will be an assistant to the success of his work, which we should all wish and I want to thank him from the heart for his two years of cordial cooperation in the ministry and assure him that we will be with him, to help him in the new task.

Referring to the new Deputy Minister Thanassis Davakis, he welcomed him by saying that he was a colleague “with whom I have been together for many years”.

“Thanasis Davakis,” Mr Dendias said, is not a young man in the Ministry of National Defense, has served in the same position, he knows the subject. Thanasis was also a participant in the great effort to reform. Until yesterday, he was chairman of the Hellenic House of Equipment Committee, perhaps the most important committee for the execution of the Armed Forces project and the completion of the great reform we are doing. And I am sure that with the cordial cooperation that we will develop here, we will achieve the goals we have set in principle. “

Yiannis Kefalogiannis stressed that in the last two years “we have achieved a lot”, he thanked Minister Nikolaos Dendia, “mainly for the trust, the love, but also the good cooperation we have had all the past.”

“I have to publicly admit that in 2023 I came as a good colleague, and I would say that I am leaving as a close friend and associate,” he added.

Speaking about the upgrading of Higher Military Education Institutions, he said that it was one of the first legislation “we introduced to Parliament and was voted on in the first months of our presence here, where we enabled expanded research and doctoral dissertation and teaching”.

“It was presented,” he continued, “and in October the Council of Ministers approved the great reform of the health issues of the Armed Forces, where we, among other things, establish the financial autonomy of military hospitals, the expansion of the Health Coverage Committees for the Health Coverage for the Armed Forces.

On the issue of the Real Estate of the Armed Forces, he explained that it is “a very large reform, where the ultimate goal of this bill is to utilize the real estate of the Armed Forces, for the benefit of the executives, as it will be funded by the large housing program and the largest residential program. The process of processing and the issue of term, which will refer, inter alia, the issue of the National Guard and the reserve. “

He thanked all the executives “who really worked and did their best to coincide with the treatment of natural disasters all previous months.”

On Agenda 2030, he said: “We have proceeded with the new structure of forces for the Armed Forces and in a few days the chief minister will present the new ten -year planning for equipment programs.”

“With all of this we are essentially laying the foundations, I will be allowed for the term for almost thirty years, if not fifty for the armed forces,” he added.

For the transition to the Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection, he stressed that “it is a higher honor and a challenge”.

“Aim,” he said, “is step -by -step and through a hard work, determination, to enhance the Civil Protection Mechanism of our country, as well as the country’s resilience to the challenges of the climate crisis. We have to prove it daily so that we can make the difference. “

He also thanked Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, “for renewing confidence in my face, but also for the great honor that made me assign me the neuralgic post of civil protection”,

Addressing Thanassis Davakis, he wished him “what better” while adding: “I am absolutely sure and relieved to take over the post, because Mr. Davakis, the dear friend Thanasis, is a man who comes from the large family of the Armed Forces and the Armed Forces, Deputy Minister of National Defense, so he comes in a very familiar space, he has the skills, he has the will, he has the will, but he is mainly the character to take the baton. “

The new Deputy Minister of National Defense, Thanassis Davakis, apparently moved, spoke from the heart, thanking the Prime Minister “for the honor that made me come back to the Ministry of National Defense”.

“A ministry,” he said, “which is linked to the history of this place, the development of this place, the glory of this place. And not only as a ministry, but as people, as executives, as a human resources that should always need our first priority. “

He expressed his joy that he receives “from a good friend, Yiannis Kefalogiannis, and I am sure that all this grid of initiatives he mentioned in his greeting, initiatives that have already been legislated and others are being launched for their legislative Our.

“But beyond the big politics, I believe that this time is very important, something very substantial, which we receive creates the great obligation to continue, improve it, develop it and have clear results as already existed and I say as chairman of the equipment committee.”

“I also want,” he continued, “to express the great honor and joy that I have to come from here under the guidance and direction of one, allow me the term, a politics of politics, such as Nikos Dendias.”

He stressed that he would always be at the minister’s “as a mere soldier” while adding to the incisions, changes and reforms brought by the “agenda 2030” that in the Minister’s directions they would “proceed with the composition of the fresh idea of ​​the armed forces and the armed forces”.

“I feel,” he said, “a great honor to work with four leaders. The Chief of the General Staff of Mr. Houpe, the Army Chief, Mr. Kostidis, the leader of our Navy, the Mr. Curse and the Chief of the Air Force, Mr. Grigoriadis, who from their experience and their love in their industry would give us their love.