Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis criticized the NATO for its policy of equal distances regarding Turkey and said thatthis was no longer acceptable to Athens. At the same time, he reiterated that International Court of the Hague
“It is now very clear in NATO, I think, that this neutral stance – that we are dealing with two NATO members (Greece and Turkey) and cannot intervene – is not acceptable to me anymore. I put this to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, namely that we are contributing to NATO, we are an ally and have the expectation that when another NATO ally is behaving in a way that jeopardises our interests,” the Greek PM said.
“NATO should not adopt this stance of equal distances and non-intervention in internal differences. It is deeply unfair to Greece,” Mitsotakis stressed during his participation at 2020 Aspen Security Forum. […]
The prime minister said that Athens was willing to resume talks with Turkey but not while under threat, and that Greece could not be blackmailed into negotiating because Turkey was threatening its sovereign rights.
“We also made it clear during the recent incident, when Turkey issued a NAVTEX threatening to carry out seismic research within the Greek Economic Exclusive Zone, that we will not accept this. The good thing is that no vessel arrived, something that I take as a positive sign, because as long as we are talking – if we genuinely want to talk – we can’t undermine the essence of the deliberations, which is how we can resolve the problem with the EEZ. Additionally, I was very clear to the international community, saying that if we do not reach an agreement, let’s go the The Hague and respect the court’s ruling,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined. Läs artikel