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With the steady position that there can be no solution for Ukraine without Ukraine and the notice that the prime minister emphasized in the Ukrainian telecommunications that “on issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity, only Ukraine can make decisions”, diplomatic sources emphasize.

For the Greek side, the debate on how to make Ukraine decisions at this critical juncture is not at all theoretical. Nor is it a formal attachment to observing the established practices, principles and rules of international law. It is a discussion that touches sensitive parameters of national issues.

The process that has been essentially imposed by US President Donald Trump, out of what we know so far as a diplomatic effort to mediate and resolve a crisis, could make a precedent, with unseen impacts. A diplomatic source points out that Athens hastened from the first moment to be placed against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and insists on the pointing that the borders do not change by force and that only Ukraine can make decisions regarding its territories.

There are a few who are concerned about the influence that a decision would have on the Cyprus issue that will be imposed on Ukraine with power and not on the basis of international authorities and international law. It is reported that in Cyprus for a decade an attempt to enforce the Turkish invasion and occupation of territories is evolving.

At the same time, Athens’ concern is that in the case of such a development in the Ukrainian, all revisionisms will be strengthened. And the Greek side has repeatedly been called upon to tackle the review approach by which Ankara has invested all its claims and claims in recent years.

There, therefore, there is a reflection on the impact that could arise in the same decision that will be considered to enhance revisionist perceptions.

In addition, the decline of Europe’s role in the new balance of forces in the form of a power is a matter of reflection. Geopolitically, Brussels does not appear to be able to play a central role and to intervene institutionally and decisively in developments at the moment. The negotiations concern a war in the courtyard of Europe, and in them the Old Epirus appears to be selectively represented on the basis of personal sympathies and not at the level of institutional organs.

All of this shapes an extremely complex and changing landscape, which reasonably raises concern and reflection, especially as the logic of solutions outside recognized international contexts are enhanced.