PM urges Turkey to lift war threat

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faced the property for two hours successful Thessaloniki Sunday. Prompted, helium expanded connected issues beyond his Saturday keynote speech. He expressed assurance the powerfulness transportation with Cyprus will beryllium completed, but added it is up to Cyprus, the main beneficiary of the project, to determine its fate. He besides denied helium will marque immoderate changes to the electoral law. [ACHILLEAS HIRAS/AMNA]

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged Turkey to assistance its long-standing menace of war and called for dialog arsenic the lone way forward, successful remarks astatine the 80th UN General Assembly successful New York connected Friday.

“Greece is simply a pillar of stability successful our region,” Mitsotakis said, stressing that Athens seeks peaceful coexistence with its neighbors while remaining alert to threats. He noted Greece spends much than 3% of its GDP connected defense.

Turning to Europe, Mitsotakis said the clip has travel for communal defence planning. “We are determined to take a strong relation for our information successful the EU,” helium said, calling for associated borrowing to strengthen communal defense.

On relations with Turkey, Mitsotakis said “the roadworthy up is based connected dialogue” but warned that Ankara’s casus belli “remains similar a achromatic unreality supra us.” He besides backed UN efforts to restart Cyprus bid talks, calling the situation a decades-long violation of planetary law.

Addressing conflicts successful Gaza and Ukraine, Mitsotakis condemned Hamas’ onslaught connected Israel but said “nothing justifies the decease of children and the humanitarian situation of Palestinians.” He reiterated Greece’s support for a two-state solution.

On Ukraine, helium praised the “indescribable courage” of its radical and vowed continued assistance.

Mitsotakis besides highlighted renewable energy, LNG expansion, and planetary challenges such arsenic clime change, migration, and artificial intelligence, saying a caller world bid is emerging arsenic multilateralism comes under strain.