Diplomatic challenges

Following the postponed High-Level Cooperation Council betwixt Greece and Turkey which was expected to take spot successful the archetypal fractional of the year, and past week’s cancellation of the gathering betwixt Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, successful New York, the bilateral narration seems to person stalled.

During the past fewer years the enactment betwixt the two NATO allies followed a cautiously affirmative trajectory, which the Greek broadside hoped, and still does, would continue.

If a gathering betwixt the two leaders is arranged σύντομα – the Turkish person is not expected to be adjacent week’s summit of the European Political Community successful Copenhagen, where a gathering could person taken spot – the spirit of the Athens Declaration signed successful 2023, could survive.

At the extremity of the time a batch depends connected what the existent purpose of Ankara is. If it wants the caller “calm waters” successful the Aegean to continue, they will.

Greece has ever supported actions that beforehand a affable environment, including assurance gathering measures connected the subject front.

Athens’ prime is clear: Instead of immoderate benignant of confrontation, it opts for a peaceful dialog – with nary threats of war – connected the galore issues we tin cooperate on, and imaginable recourse to the International Court of Justice to solve our large difference, the delimitation of the continental support and exclusive economical zone.

Behavior and the rhetoric are used play a role. In that discourse threatening Greece, a NATO ally, with war does not marque Turkey a pillar of stability and practice with the West, and successful that consciousness it does not needfully service Ankara’s interests.

As the determination diplomatic scenery gets much complicated, presenting a fig of strategic challenges to all, the decisions made and the actions taken successful the abbreviated and mean term connected the vigor beforehand could beryllium critical.