Mitsotakis from Nicosia: Ukraine now experiencing what Cyprus faced in 1974
Mitsotakis warned that Ukraine is now experiencing what Cyprus faced in 1974
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking from Cyprus on Friday, returned a very small portion of the opprobrium directed at him and the Greek government this month by an increasingly confrontational and embattled Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“The Russian invasion threatens to establish a model of authoritarian behavior, by which every imperialistic country, every regional trouble-maker, under any pretext, can invade a neighboring country. This is a model that can be imitated by other leaders with imperial and expansionist visions, something that affects Greece … but something that affects Cyprus even more so, as it has been divided for decades,” Mitsotakis said during an address to delegates at a congress of the Democratic Rally (DYSI) party on the island republic.
Fresh from a new around of saber-rattling, personal insults and revisionist rhetoric by the Erdogan regime, Mitsotakis warned that Ukraine is now experiencing what Cyprus faced in 1974, while adding that a “two-state” solution, being promoted of late by Ankara, is rejected outright.
In directly referring to a parameter that has thrust the east Mediterranean onto the international energy limelight, Mitsotakis said the Cyprus issue has again become a priority – an indirect reference to natural gas deposits found in Cypriot and Israeli waters, and efforts to find a way to ship the quantities to Europe.
At the same time, in again pointing to Turkish aggressiveness and provocations in the wider region, he said “…we won’t open a dialogue with the irrational (position); we’re ready to discuss a new environment of security but with respect to international law and respect to the rules of good-neighborliness.”
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