“Based on the decision that has now come out of the monastery’s central gardens, around 16 areas,” Christos Kombiliris said.
For the diplomatic thriller of the last hours around the Monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai to Egypt talked to his radio SKAI The Legal Representative of the Monastery, Christos Kobiliris.
“Indeed, the Court of Egyptian Court of Justice caused disruption and insecurity for the following reason: There was a deal.”as he typically said.
“Throughout the last year there have been various postponements of the case that was tried in a second instance by the Egyptian Court of Appeal. This is a case that has begun for over 10 years and serious efforts have been made to be able to close out of court. In this context, a delegation of the Greek Government in Egypt had designed with officials from both the Foreign Ministry and Mr. Kalatzis as the Secretary General of Religions from the Ministry of Education, to meet with a delegation of Egypt and the commander of South Sinai. “
“We had come to a text where some final observations would be made, so that the case could be closed out. So this text that would be an agreement spoke of complete recognition of the monastery’s ownership right of all land. While the decision that came out yesterday, to be careful, is a manuscript of the judge, where he spoke of a recognition of about 46 areas, not the whole that had been agreed, and refers to a right of crisis/possession so that religious duties can be exercised. “
Thus, continuing, Mr Kobiliris spoke of withdrawing the original agreement that had reached the final level of negotiations, as the signatures were on the way.
“The draft of this agreement had been drafted, texts had been exchanged, all in writing. There must be a very important distinction here: on the one hand it is religious freedom that the monks can perform religious duties, but on the other it is ownership. On the basis of the decision that was currently coming out, it seems to be out of the central gardens of the monastery, around 16 areas. These are vital to the monks, because they live in them. That is, the monastery will actually remain without property. “
“The building itself had been declared 2-3 decades ago as an archaeological site. That can’t change ‘, Complete.
Source: Skai
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