Do you remember what Mr. Meimarakis said, as the speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, on the 10th of October 2012 welcoming Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu?
"I welcome you and
give you a souvenir - a boat that floats freely in our Aegean
Sea."
What was this supposed to
mean? Which boat cannot float freely in the Aegean Sea?
And why should float it free? Doesn’t it have to respect the international law
rules? Doesn’t it have to respect the sovereign rights in the Aegean
Sea? What exactly is the problem in the Aegean
Sea? Is it about free sailing or a Turkey’s
direct threat against Greece?
For Mr. Meimarakis and the
interests he serves it’s quite simple: instead of defending the sovereign
rights, more important to him seems to be the opening of the Aegean
Sea to everyone. Free sail the Aegean Sea
means sea without any sovereign rights.
That statement alone would
be enough in other times to cause a scandal but in the times of general
sell-off, all this is considered as to be absolutely normal.
Mr. Davutoglu got the
message right away and replied to Mr. Meimarakis "We want the Aegean Sea, to be a sea of peace and friendship, to be open to any kind
of cooperation".
He made himself quite clear.
Aegen Sea has to be open to any kind of cooperation;
that is an open sea without any sovereign rights at all, any international law
rules or rights deriving from it, so that any kind of operation is accepted.
The thing is that not all kind of cooperation is permitted. Permitted is only cooperation
that respects the existing sovereign rights and the rules of the international
law. Otherwise what we have is cooperation not among well-governed nations but
among gangs. In this case gangs are represented by Meimarakis on one side and
by Davutoglu on the other.
But because it is not so
easy for the Greek people to forget about Greece’s sovereign rights on the
Aegean Sea, about Imia betrayal and the Greek marines who died in the name of
the Simitis’ "thank you to the U.S. government", the "grey zones"
etc. there had to be found another way to make up a story for the Greek People.
That story was the EEZ.
We were of those who had
been insisting from the very beginning that an EEZ declaration under the
current circumstances of occupation and submission would simply mean a crime
against the Greek people.
When Francois Hollande paid
visit to Greece
on 19.02.2013, Prime Minister Samaras took the
opportunity to make clear the intentions of the local gang that rules the country:
opportunity to make clear the intentions of the local gang that rules the country:
"France, with its
moves in Mali, has already made clear the opportunities for greater stability
in the (Mediterranean basin) region, and for the peaceful resolution, wherever
possible, of regional crises, such as the one in Syria and the Cyprus problem;
and of course, as I said before, to deal with the huge waves of immigration
that threaten all of Europe, which I might add, burden countries like Greece
disproportionately. It is this reasoning with which we back France's policy in Mali,
a policy that shows decisiveness and responsibility on its part and for all of Europe," Samaras said.
"We have signed, as
you know, the International Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), as have most countries in
the world... Greece's energy
deposits are found in Greece's
maritime region; they are the mineral wealth for all of Europe,
in general. Greece
has the right to delimitate its EEZ, as it emanates from UNCLOS, whenever it
wants to. We will proceed with the correct moves that are necessary.’’ Samaras
added.
This
is an outraging
statement. Mr.Samaras, as a typical spokesperson of a gang cannot but
praise France for taking action in Mali, regardless the fact that even
inside France
this policy has been condemned as neo-colonial. France’s excuse may be
the Islamic
threaten, but the main goal is the seizing of the mineral wealth of one
of the
richest countries in minerals in sub Saharan Africa. He doesn’t mind
France
intervening by invitation of the military junta that rules the country
for many
years supported by the French, nor this military action costing an
incredibly
large number of victims among the civilians.
So, after Samaras lined up
with Hollande in Mali’s
colonial slaughter by the French, then came the best part:
"We want to solve the
problem in a friendly and peaceful manner because this is also in the interests
of Europe. Together with Cyprus, we can play an even bigger role in the
production of hydrocarbons to supply Europe
from European sources" said Samaras.
Thus naming the
well-advertised Aegean Sea oil
reserves….’’european’’. Hollande didn’t miss the opportunity and replied back:
"... I believe that International Law and
the Law of the Sea will prevail. If France
can, of course, jointly exploit those deposits with Greece, it will do so’’.
So, if anything is ever found in the Aegean Sea, it will have already been baptized ‘European’
and will have been delivered to the Europeans.
The other day (07/03) Mr. Samaras made it even
clearer at European People’s Party convention
, when he said he wanted to give a "European
dimension" to the national issues, such as defining the EEZ boundaries and
stressed the need for a common foreign policy in Europe.
Do you know what this means? Oh, nothing to worry
about; just the official abolition of Greece’s sovereign rights. To mark EEZ boundaries you need to
have first of all a sovereign state with sovereign rights over air, sea and
ground. A European EEZ in the Aegean would mean that Greece
resigns from its sovereign rights, which Greece hands them over to the
European Union.
Is this irrelevant with the
fact the EU is heading very rapidly towards a European Federation? Of course not.
European Federation is a new morpheme which will integrate the sovereign rights
and the national sovereignty of its
member-states starting by Greece.
Only a few understood what
Samaras was up to with regards to the EEZ but as soon as Tsipras’ officials (=the head of Greece’s
opposition’s party) urged to applaud. George Stathakis ( SYRIZA deputy)
said during an interview at the radio
station Real (08/03) "Mr. Samaras’ move could prove brilliant" .
What made Mr. Stathakis so
enthusiastic about Mr. Samaras statement,
was that he and the likes
of him support any idea that leads to the dissolution of that miserable country
called Greece
and its absorption by the European colonialists. We don’t expect, of course, by
Mr. Stathakis to know much about geopolitics, to even know that geopolitics is
not a science but a reactionist theory which was reached its apogee during the
Nazis. We shall only the ask the following question: can he name an example of
a country that turned the use of its wealth resources from a crucial issue of
internal politics into a problem of international geopolitics and wasn’t left
into shambles by the big powers? He will not find a single one on a world
scale.
Just like Samaras, Tsipras
with advisors like Stathakis, do not
make policy for the sake this country and its people but for the sake of
‘Europe’, namely for Hollande, Merkel and others. This is
why they all have sold off Greece
and are trying to convince the Greek people that they have to learn to
live
like a slave within the frames of the European Federation without
anything
belonging to them. This is exactly what happens in the ‘Third Word’
countries.
Any country that doesn’t know how to protect its sovereign rights and
doesn’t
nationalize its wealth resources, cannot declare an EEZ. On the
contrary, it is
turned into a colony, so that the powerful with their military or
economic
means can lute its resources.
Is this the Greece we want?
If yes, let’s then give everything away to the ‘Europeans’, let’s vote for
Tsipras with the hope of a bit of dry bread and with the conscience of a beggar.
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