Greek Prime Minister in Davos: We will not go to war with Turkey (video)

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave an interview with the well-known CNN journalist, Farid Zakaria, in the context of his presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos, protothema.gr reports.

Commenting on the Greek-Turkish developments, Kyriakos Mitsotakis predicted that “we will not go to war with Turkey, but in the last three years we have experienced many tensions and not only over Kastellorizo. We should be able to sit down with Turkey as reasonable adults and discuss the issue of the continental shelf and sea zones in the Aegean. We did it successfully with Italy and Egypt, with Albania we will refer the issue to The Hague and it will decide”, he stressed.

And he continued, referring to Greek-Turkish relations: “As long as we agree on the rules, which is the international law for solving problems and you don’t provoke your neighbors unnecessarily, you keep communication channels open. And it is not useful to instrumentalize foreign policy for domestic reasons”.

“Does anybody reasonably believe that the Greek islands are a threat to the Turkish mainland, or is it more realistic to believe that the Turkish mainland is a threat to the Greek islands?” he also pointed out, to add that, after the elections, “which will take place almost simultaneously” (in Turkey they are expected to be held on May 14), “there are ways to lower tensions, to agree that we disagree, but in a civilized way. We don’t need to threaten each other or have overflights”.

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