Mitsotakis warns Israel at UN that Gaza war risks alienating allies

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addresses the 80th league of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday. [Richard Drew/AP Photo]

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel risks alienating its remaining allies by continuing its war successful Gaza.

Underlining that Greece instantly condemned Hamas’ “heinous attacks of October 7, 2023” connected Israel from the outset and “advocated for Israel’s close to support itself against a terrorist enactment that rejects Israel’s close to exist,” Mitsotakis said “no subject targets, nary substance however valuable they are, tin warrant the decease of thousands of children, the forced displacement of implicit a cardinal Palestinians successful the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinian people.”

The premier curate said that Greece’s “strategic concern with Israel” does not forestall it “from speaking openly and honestly and frankly. “The continuation of this people of enactment will ultimately harm Israel’s ain interests, starring to an erosion of planetary support.

“And I tell my Israeli friends that they hazard alienating each their remaining allies if they persist connected a way that is shattering the imaginable of a two-state solution.”

Turning to the war successful Ukraine, Mitsotakis praised the “indescribable courage” of the Ukrainian people, emphasizing that their struggle is simply a defence of state and for a world based connected planetary rules. He assured Ukraine that Greece continues to stand with and will proceed its assistance to it.

Referring to the European Union, the premier curate noted that the clip has travel for associated defence planning, citing Jean Monnet’s remark that Europe was created done crises.

On Greek-Turkish relations, Mitsotakis said the way guardant is based connected dialog and called connected Turkey to region the menace of war, noting that the casus belli remains similar a “dark cloud” implicit Greece.

Mitsotakis underlined that Greece supports the UN’s efforts to restart negotiations connected Cyprus.

The premier curate besides urged enactment connected κοινωνικά media summation among young people. Greece’s connection for a pan-European minimum property entree to κοινωνικά media is being examined by the European Commission, helium said.