"...School of inertia. It exists and prevails. Many believe that time works in our favor, both in Cyprus and in Greek-Turkish relations and in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, and there are many who believe that, ultimately, let's allow time to provide the solution. And you know what this means in Cyprus especially, right? It means partition and it means a front between Cyprus and Turkey under the worst possible geographical and military conditions. Those who think that the situation cannot worsen are not reading history correctly. And the decades-long cycles that the Cyprus issue, in particular, goes through. The same is true in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. That is, regarding our position on issues related to the Law of the Sea and issues of sovereignty, sovereign rights, and administrative competences in the Eastern Mediterranean, which relate to our sovereignty over the islands, with the sovereign rights on the continental shelf, with the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which is also a sovereign right, and with administrative competences recognized by International Conventions or International Organizations, such as the control of the Athens FIR, issues of search and rescue, and so forth…

Evangelos Venizelos

The proceedings of the open discussion organized by the Circle of Ideas for National Reconstruction on November 30, 2016, on the topic of Greek foreign policy and security policy.

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