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Cinema often imitates life. In other cases The cinema seems, almost prophetically, to precede and predict events. that will come true in the future. In the hollywood movie “The president, a pink scandal and a war” (Wag the Dog) The American president is leading a fictitious war with Albania to mislead the public from a sex scandal in which he is involved.
In the past week United States President Joe Biden ordered the bombardment of a group of pro-Iranian Shiite fighters on Syrian soil near the border with Iraq, wanting to send the message that Washington will not withdraw against Tehran. The election of Biden, at a time when friends and allies of the United States are waiting for the president and the State Department to develop their strategy on issues of interest, reveals that at this stage the priorities of the new US administration are to address the pandemic. and the crisis. promotion of the gigantic package of 1.9 trillion. dollars for economic recovery.
“I will not go into detail about our policy towards Turkey», answered succinctly United States Ambassador to Athens Jeffrey Payat, called by “TOPIC” describe the policy to be followed by the Biden government in Greek-Turkish.
Asked about possible Washington reaction to Ankara’s constant blackmail of Greek-Turkish relations, the experienced Payat limited himself to referring to the statements of the US Secretary of State.
“Anthony Blinken’s comments on Turkey during the Senate hearing were very clear”he replied, without even repeating his boss’s statement Department of State, that Turkey’s alignment with Russia is not acceptable to the United States. In his first conversation with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşo .lu, Blinken urged Ankara not to maintain Russia’s S-400 surface-to-air missile system.
These days the Turkish government seeks to strengthen its negotiating position vis-à-vis Greece reap the greatest possible benefits from the impending agreement with Washington and the EU. with a view to the Summit on March 25 and 26.
The day before yesterday, Friday, in a teleconference with the constant ally of Turkey Angela Merkel, the Recep Tayyip Erdogan went so far as to describe Ankara’s stance as … constructive in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean! With this attitude, the President of Turkey not only downgraded the investigations of “Oruc Reis” in an area of the Greek continent, the threat of casus belli if Athens expands Greek territorial waters in the Aegean and the protection of the usurpation of maritime areas where Greece has sovereign rights, but indirectly reiterated the threat of causing even greater tension if Ankara does not receive from Brussels what it expects from the Immigration Service.
The 62nd round
When asked if and when it will take place the next round of exploratory contacts between Greece and Turkey, senior Greek government officials say they are awaiting a response from the Turkish side. Greek diplomacy had suggested to the Turkish Foreign Ministry that the 62nd round be held in Athens in the first week of March, a milestone that was missed due to the Turkish decision not even to respond.
“One step forward and ten steps back”, is the answer that an experienced parliamentary when we ask you to decode the current level of Greek-Turkish relations.
The Greek government, however, is moving forward the plan to strengthen the Armed Forces according to the schedule.
Dendias in Cairo
Babesia From The Egyptian State Machine, “A 3,000-year-old bureaucracy,” in the words of a seasoned diplomat, or perhaps a change in attitude from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi? What exactly is happening with the decision of the Egyptian Ministry of Energy to grant the license for hydrocarbon exploration in a part of the sea southeast of the area where Athens and Cairo have concluded an Exclusive Economic Zone? Is it a coincidence that the land in question is adjacent to the area where Ankara claims sovereignty and has unilaterally identified it as the border line of the supposed Turkish mainland?
After the telephone conversation of the Greek prime minister with his president Of Egipt It was announced that on Monday he will go to Cairo Nikos Dendias for a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Sucre. Will the chancellor be able to find a formula to solve the problem that Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu was quick to exploit, celebrating Egypt’s recognition of the outer borders of the Turkish continental shelf? The golden section will be found to solve the problem created by the search for a company that will carry out investigations east of the 28th meridian, at the end of the region where Greece and Egypt agreed and partially demarcated their Exclusive Economic Zone or if Cairo is trapped. to the error caused by a … Pharaonic bureaucratic mechanism with unknown ends?
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