“I will not help to distort the big picture, that a besieged leader of a country being slaughtered, asked for support and we offered it to him,” said Parliament Speaker Costas Tassoulas to the parliamentary editors, on the occasion of the video that was shown in the Greek Parliament with Greek expatriate to declare that he is fighting with the Order of Azov against Russia, during the of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I explained that the whole story has to do with the big picture. And the big picture is that a leader of a country that is under terrible attack, with huge human costs, spoke to the Greek Parliament, referred to the help of Greece and asked for its support and we offered it to him. “Mr. Zelenski recognized the struggle of the Greek community and used our words, freedom or death,” Mr. Tassoulas stressed immediately after the Conference of Speakers of Parliament, where the issue was raised by the opposition parties which reacted strongly.
“The big picture is that, through the Greek Parliament, a country that witnessed the barbaric attack of Russia, asked for our solidarity, expressed its problem and further internationalized it. This is the important thing and it justifies the initiative we took as a country to help it. If we want to undermine, tarnish and stigmatize this, we can turn the big picture into this unnecessary intervention. This is simply not the big picture “, Mr. Tassoulas pointed out, answering the persistent questions of the parliamentary authors.
Asked how he comments on the video with them two Ukrainian fightersthe Speaker of Parliament said that “obviously he could not have been included”.
At the same time, he explained that a few minutes before the sermon, Zelenski learned that he and the Parliament would include a video with two Greek expatriate fighters describing the hardships they are going through in Mariupol.
“We did not have the opportunity to check in advance or in advance what Mr. Zelensky wanted to say. There was no way we could intervene nor was there time to check the video. “I do not think this should detach us from the big picture, which is different, and it is the historic decision of our country to support a country that reacts and resists,” he stressed.
Asked if he would issue an official statement of dissatisfaction with the video of the two fighters, the Speaker of Parliament replied: “I will not make any announcement. I will not help to upset the big picture. “We must not distort it and facilitate Russian propaganda.”
“It is unfair and unworthy to undermine the basic message which is that a besieged historical leader of a country that is being slaughtered and afflicted, has come to express his pain and ask for help and support,” the speaker concluded.
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