PM Mitsotakis: Greece and the Greeks are on the side of freedom
"It is almost a month since the [start of the] illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine that drastically tranforms the geopolitical state of play, violates legality and brings blood, refugee flows and global insecurity," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined while addressing the Greek parliament on Wednesday, in the context of a debate on a draft finance ministry bill.
"The conflict in Ukraine may torpedo the global growth that we all expected," he said, adding that "overcoming these challenges is a one-way road". Mitsotakis stressed that Greece has from the start aligned itself with the side of peace, of international law and the inviolability of borders, the side of Ukraine and the tens of thousands of ethnic Greeks, who are particularly afflicted by the horrors visited upon Mariupol.
"In Ukraine, democracy is contending with authoritarianism, modern Western civilisation with Eastern authoritarianism, the despotism of the past," he said, adding: "It is necessary to fend off every effort for a violent change of the borders and every model of leader who wants anti-democratic hegemony. Greece and the Greeks are with freedom," Mitsotakis said.
