The impending Kyriakos Mitsotakis – Joe Biden meeting at the White House on May 16will be “important“,” It will bring results “, and” shows how the superpower perceives the role of Greece in the region “, as” lately Greece has deepened its strategic relations with the USA “, stressed the former EU Commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, speaking on the First Program 91.6 and 105.8 and on the show “With these and with them” with Fotis Papoulias.
As he said, it will be “an opportunity for the Greek Prime Minister to report the situation to Eastern Mediterranean, to raise the issues on which it has its own vital interests and at the same time to talk on behalf of the Euro-Atlantic system “, adding that” I can not understand why our national self-confidence is shaken. We have one of the best defense systems, we have the ability to play a role in the region without phobic syndromes and references to third parties, it is enough to gradually get rid of outdated foreign policy stereotypes that have often held us back. “Greece is a geopolitical factor of stability.”
Regarding Greek-Turkish relations He stressed that we must not “move away from our basic position that we can discuss the maritime zones and only for them and nothing more, and not forget the Cyprus issue.” Regarding the role of Turkey against the background of Russia’s war in Ukraine, he said that “in Greece every time, whatever happens, we look at what Turkey is doing. “We have to look at what we can do, without giving up our geopolitical advantages.” “Turkey has strengthened its position, played as it usually does in its diplomatic game and everyone counts on it. In the Eastern Mediterranean, in the eyes of the USA and Europe, Turkey and Israel are more important. “With the initiatives it took and hosting conferences of the warring parties, it upgraded its role and this was welcomed by both Europeans and Americans”, he added and asked “this should not be interpreted as being done to Greece as some say very easily”. “Greece has its own role to play and Mr. Mitsotakis rightly met recently with Mr. Erdogan in the context of the European security strategy. “The two NATO member states could jointly play a stabilizing role so that the crisis in our region does not escalate.”
“It will be too late to solve the problem in Ukraine”
Asked about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former minister said that international diplomacy has not lost the game, but “certainly has not proved effective mainly in the field of multilateral diplomacy. “This is because he was surprised by what happened in Ukraine, where a misreading took place.” -Atlantic system. The target is mainly the West, which Putin is currently trying to bring to its knees. Of course, his plans in Ukraine did not work out, he moved away from the original plan, which he thought would end on March 8. My assessment is that it will be too late to solve this big problem. “The whole world has entered a dangerous and unpredictable trajectory that we do not know where it will lead us,” he said.
For the UN he said that he intervened very slowly and “more with wishes, because he has no power to intervene”. “On the other hand, NATO has become much stronger than before, which largely explains why geopolitically weakened Europe, which is now divided in the face of this great challenge. So what was built after World War II and supposedly after the end of the Cold War does not work today. “The security architecture is in danger of collapsing,” he added.
He expressed concern about the possibility of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, saying that the two countries “have the inalienable right to decide for themselves which international organizations to join”, but “we do not know what Russia’s reaction will be.” which feels the snout of NATO in its “neck”.
Regarding the EU, the former Community Commissioner said that it has become a global economic power, but not a global geopolitical power, because it did not advance the plan of political integration with a common foreign and defense policy.
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