Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the creation of the first two maritime parks within the month. The first will take place in the Ionian Sea and the second in the Cyclades, as the prime minister said.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to Greece’s plan for the creation of marine parks, which has been developed on the sole criterion of protecting the environment and animal wealth of the Greek 8th.

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“Greece is a great naval nation with the largest commercial fleet in the world and thousands of islands and has one of the largest coastlines, while connection to the sea forms not only our economy in our lifestyle, but also our identity,” said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking to the 3rd.

The prime minister, who spoke in English, also sent a clear message by saying that our country as the chairman of the UN Security Council, promotes stability and security at sea and sea transport, which, he said, ensure prosperity and stability. He warmly thanked the states that organized this event, which helps to focus on the urgent need to accelerate the joint action to protect the oceans and added:

“And this is not a mission of a state, but of a whole generation.”

She pointed out that the Greek government has a very specific goal in front of it, a significant correction of the maritime biodiversity agreement beyond national jurisdiction (BBMJ) in order to enter into force. As this agreement said, it is a historic step in maintaining biodiversity and the international community must promote the necessary restrictions as soon as possible. He also stressed that the agreement has been corrected and our country will submit its ratification document today, and said they were following more.

“I am pleased to announce to you that Greece has taken a very important step in protecting the sea at national level before the end of this month we will begin the legal process for the creation of two new national marine parks one in the Ionian and the other in the Aegean,” the prime minister said.

Mr Mitsotakis said the government would exponentially increase our maritime protected areas and once these sections are finalized “we will significantly exceed the 30%threshold” before the end year, and “we will do a bottom controling in all our parks and of course we will not stop there”.

We take – integrated measures – to ensure that all our protected areas are effectively protected and are not just paper parks, while referring to automatic surveillance and effective management monitoring.

He added that our country is taking measures to restore recovery and durability of diversity by creating life zones around the islands, “a safe haven for marine life”.

Mr Mitsotakis also referred to the need to detach carbon shipping and said that shipping should accelerate its steps, while at the same time having to coordinate this action worldwide to be effective and therefore Greece has been integrated into the ICS initiative with the aim of clean energy.

Mr Mitsotakis spoke of the need for a triple -scale maritime hub with alternative fuels and therefore the recent IMO agreement must be complied with from all countries. The prime minister also referred to maritime security saying that it should be respected by everyone to promote global political stability, economic capacity, security, supply and sustainable development. He concluded, saying that for the well -being of all people “we must do more as an international community” he pointed out that the legal frameworks are necessary, and stressed that we must all be committed together and with actions to save the future.

Macron: To be unmistakable when threatened our territorial sovereignty of our partners

Emmanuel Macron, during his placement at the same event, referred to Greece and Cyprus, saying:

“We need to protect our EEZs. And we have to be irrelevant when the territorial sovereignty of some partners is threatened. I am referring to our friends, Greeks or Cypriots. “

And he added: “We must protect our territorial waters and ether everywhere.”