Defence Minister on continental shelf, ΕΕΖ and Cyprus

August 26, 2011 | Filed under: Featured News,Geopolitics

Defence Minister Panos Beglitis categorically stated on Thursday that “Greece will secure it national and sovereign rights to an absolute degree, as they emanate from the international law of the sea and international treaties,” in reference to the issue of the Aegean continental shelf and an Exclusive Economic Zone.

Within the framework of briefing a relevant Parliamentary committee, in light of his upcoming official visit to Israel and contacts with the Israeli government, Beglitis stressed that Athens will calm and decisively monitor whatever developments in the eastern Mediterranean.

Asked to comment on the threats by Turkey against the cooperation between Cyprus and Israel and the surveys for natural gas, Mr. Beglitis stressed that: “We recognize and we are able to defend the sovereignty of the Cyprus Republic under the international law of the sea. The Cyprus Republic is always at the heart of our defense doctrine and we will defend these principles, if and when necessary. Apart from the threats and the ongoing revisionist policy of Turkey, we have the determination and the means to manage this situation. We owe, by undertaking active initiatives, to hold Turkey as accountable in regards to the international law. “

Sources:

kathimerini.gr

athensnews.gr

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  • Tyroneez

    I CAN ONLY SURMISE THAT THE TURKISH MILITARY , AND SUCCSESIVE GOVERNMENTS … (HAVE CONSISTANTLY MISREAD AS WEAKNESS) … GREECE’S SENSIBLE DECISION NOT TO OPT FOR AN ARMED CONFRONTATION …TO COUNTER TURKISH ILLEGAL ACTIONS ON CYPRUS AND THE AGEAN …ALL THESE YEARS …
    BUT INSTEAD HAS TAKEN THE PATH OF PEACE AND NEGOTIATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW …KNOWING FULL WELL THAT TO INITIATE A MILITARY ADVENTURE WOULD BE DEVASTATING FOR BOTH THEIR PEOPLES …
    TURKEY COULDNT BE MORE WRONG !!
    IT NEEDS TO KEEP IN MIND GREECE’S BRAVE STAND AND SUCCESSES AGAINST FASCIST ITALY’S AND NAZI GERMANY’S …BRUTAL ASSAULT IN 1940 …INCIDENTALLY THEREBY SAVING TURKEYS NECK FOR THE WHOLE WAR ….
    PERHAPS MR ERDOGAN SHOULD READ SOME NON TURKISH HISTORY BOOKS ..
    AND LEARN WHAT REALY HAPPENS , WHEN A LARGE MILITARILY SUPERIOR POWER TRY’S TO OVERRUN GREECE !!!
    LET ALONE TURKEY , WHICH ONLY HAS A NUMERICAL ADVANTAGE IN GROUND TROOPS ..
    AND WITH HALF ITS ARMY WITH ITS HANDS FULL TRYING TO KEEP CONTROL OF KURDISTAN !!
    NO WONDER THE GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER IS NOT PHASED BY TURKISH SABERATLLING IN THE EASTERN MED …
    THE ONLY ADVANTAGE TURKEY MAY HAVE HAD WAS THE ABILITY TO BLACKMAIL GREECE WITH THE THREAT TO QUICKLY OVERRUN THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS …
    THEY JUST THREW THAT CARD AWAY BY UPSETTING ISRAEL …
    WHO HAS NOW FINALLY SEEN THE LIGHT AND PERCIEVED THE DANGER FROM THE TURKISH THREAT TO THEIR GAS FIELDS …
    NOT ONLY HAVE THEY LOST ANY CHANCE OF EXTENDING THEIR HEGEMONY UPTO THE ISREALI EEZ … THROUGH A TAKE OVER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS …
    BUT THEY HAVE ALSO LOST CONTROL OF THE ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED NORTH OF CYPRUS …

    BECAUSE ISREAL WILL NOT REST UNTIL THE TURKISH ARMY AND AIR FORCE AND NAVY HAVE COMPLETELY LEFT CYPRUS FOR GOOD …

    THE ISREALI AIRFORCE OVERFLIGHT LAST MONTH OF NORTH NICOSIA AND OCCUPIED CYPRUS , AS FAR AS THE TURKISH COAST AT ANTALYA ….IN TOTAL DEFIANCE OF TURKEYS FORBIDDING IT ….

    SHOULD BE SIGNAL ENOUGH OF WHAT IS COMMING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS …

    ISREAL DOESNT EVEN HAVE TO FIRE OFF ONE SHOT..

    ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS TELL THE AMERICANS … THAT IT IS IMPERATIVE FOR ISREALI SECURITY … TO HAVE THE LEGAL OWNER OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN EEZ …A SMALL NEUTRAL REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS , IN CHARGE …AS A BUFFER ZONE …ONLY THIS WILL ALLOW THE ISREALIS MILITARY TO SLEEP QUITELY AT NIGHT , WITHOUT HAVING TO WATCH THEIR BACKS OVER THIS NEW TURKISH THREAT OF COMPLETE ENCIRCLEMENT …
    AND IT WILL BE DONE …
    AMERICA WILL HAVE NO CHOICE , BUT TOO SAVE TURKEY FROM ITSELF …AS AN ISREALI THREAT TO DESTROY THE TURKISH NAVY AND AIRFORCE CAPABILITIES IN AND AROUND CYPRUS …WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR AMERICA TO IGNORE …

    I AM NOT A WARMONGER , AND NONE OF THIS SHOULD LEAD TO AN ARMED CONFLICT ..
    AS I FEEL FOR TURKISH MOTHERS AS MUCH AS GREEK OR ISREALI AND PALESTINIAN MOTHERS …

    HOWEVER I CANNOT SEE ….(HOW TURKEY HAVING MADE A BID FOR REGIONAL HEGEMONY , AND SO BLATANTLY BEEN FORCED TO BACK DOWN , AFTER HAVING UNWISELY OVERREACHED ITSELF) ….HAS ANY CHOICE NOW
    DESPITE ALL THE RHETORIC AND BLUSTER