At NATO, the case of two Greek military prisoners

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense, and the Greek Minister of Defense, this week follow the two national fronts – Macedonian and Greek-Turkish – through the harsh geopolitical poker at NATO summit. Nikos Kotzias and Panos Kammenos will be on Wednesday and Thursday in Brussels for a summit at which the new Trab should dominate to stop Russian influence and redeploy US priorities in the Middle East

In this context, the summit , the presence of Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, should ratify the invitation of Macedonia to accession talks, explicitly stipulating that the Prespa agreement for nomenclature. On the Greek side, the data is clear and the difficult part of the agreement falls in the Zaev government in the coming months, but given the political tension on the national political scene, the focus is on the presence in Brussels of Defense Minister Panos Kammenos all the tones that upon ratification, the agreement will leave the government.

The most difficult task for the Greek Prime Minister is to maintain the balance between Greek and Turkish. the shadow of the prolonged detention of the two military Adrianople. The issue has become even more complex since the provocative and official link of Ankara to the detention of the two military officers with the case of the eight Turkish officers who requested asylum in our country.

On the Greek side, it is clear that there is no discussion or discussion, but information from diplomatic sources indicates that Athens intends to put more and more of tension over the question of the detention of the two soldiers at the NATO Summit. The meeting between the Greek Prime Minister and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is in any case crucial, in any case, after the letter of the Turkish Parliamentary Committee to NATO, which links the fate of the Greek armed forces. , with the case of Turkish officers, the design of Athens provides for the greatest possible internationalization of the issue with a view to their immediate release

The question of the release of the two soldiers was raised by the Greek Prime Minister and during his recent meeting with NATO Secretary General Yves Stoltenberg, where Alexis Tsipras pointed out that their detention was "unacceptable" and invoked the terms governing the relations of two NATO member states on the basis of Article 1 of the alliance. 19659002] Alexis Tsipras then asked Mr. Stevennberg to play a more active role in finding a solution, and the NATO Secretary General was committed to doing his utmost [19659002] Source tvxs.gr

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