“The postponement of the meeting of the Greek Prime Minister with the Turkish president at the request of the Turkish side sends the wrong messages to a critical geopolitical context for bilateral relations and the wider situation in the Eastern Mediterranean.”in his statement, the KTE manager states in his statement. PASOK’s external, Dimitris Mantzos.

He adds that “despite the low expectations and the broader climate, which is not ideal, the meeting would even offer the institutional framework so that the Greek government can raise serious issues concerning respect for national sovereignty and the stunning exercise of its sovereign rights”.

The competent party official states that “if it is, in fact, for postponement and not cancellation, the meeting must be held at an appropriate time during the UN General Assembly”. “Otherwise,” he says, “this would be yet another tangible proof of our country’s degradation and devaluation by the Turkish government, which shows that it respects the dialogue only when it has to benefit from it.”

For her part, the SYRIZA-PS external sector Rena Dourou said: “Another” achievement “of foreign policy with …” self -confidence “. The postponement, just hours before the meeting of the Greek Prime Minister with the Turkish president, “at the request of the Turkish side”, brings to the fore again, the marginalization of Greece to which the adventurous, coherent national policy has led to. For six years, Greece has chosen the role of given, predictable ally, who has been receiving discounts on sovereign rights from Turkey, without daring to pursue the contemporary, multidimensional foreign policy that the international context demands today. At the UN General Assembly, Greece, although a non -permanent member of the International Organization’s Security Council, chooses to marginalize, aligned (for Gaza, for the ICC, for the Palestinian state) to the US and Israel, participates without a voice for the protection of international law, of national law. The meeting with the Greek prime minister was apparently for the Turkish president of a minor meeting, with a given interlocutor who can also be postponed to more important meetings, mainly with the US president. Another “achievement” of foreign policy with … “self -confidence” as Mr. Gerapetritis boasts … “

At the same time Kyriakos Velopoulos on the subject stated: “Developments in the US are dramatic. The prime minister and leadership of the country by Trump, unwanted by Erdogan, was unwanted. Complete disgust. But in the face of the Prime Minister, Greece ended. “

The president of the Greek solution added: “We were saying it. They put Trump against Trump and Greece will pay for it. For us now, all political leaders are responsible. They are also undesirable for us because they did a national crime because of the depreciation of Greece with the attack and the insults against Trump. “