ECONOMIST IMPACT – Tassoulas: Greece remains a beacon of stability and security in our troubled neighbourhood
"Greece remains a beacon of stability and security in our troubled neighbourhood. A reliable partner and steadfast ally, it speaks to everyone with honesty and realism," President of the Hellenic Republic Constantine Tassoulas said on Tuesday, at the opening of the 29th Annual Government Roundtable entitled "Walking steadily across a tightrope of uncertainty."
Tassoulas underlined that Greece "above all, remains committed to the value of dialogue and the peaceful resolution of disputes, based on international law, including the law of the sea, rejecting violence, unilateralism and revisionism as means of pursuing policy, in the modern era, in the 21st century."
He also recalled that "as a founding member of the United Nations and a non-permanent member of the Security Council, it speaks out and actively participates in managing the major challenges of our time. It supports the work of the UN, believing in the need to increase the membership of the Security Council and mitigate the veto power of its permanent members."
The President of the Republic pointed out that the theme of this year's meeting could not be more timely, given the high degree of volatility and uncertainty in the current international landscape.
He also argued that "decades of stability in international relations are being shaken and wars are succeeding one another. Revisionism and extreme nationalism are spreading dangerously in our neighbourhood and beyond, while isolationism and unilateral action and the law of might are being strengthened at the expense of multilateralism and cooperation." He added that "even more worrying are the increasing incidence of questioning international law and the international institutions built upon the ruins of the World War II."
In particular, he stated that "fundamental principles of the international legal order, such as the prohibition of the use or threat of the use of force, the inviolability of borders and respect for national sovereignty, are violated daily, while human rights and international humanitarian law are blatantly disregarded in many regions of the planet."
He observed, however, that "the gradual shift in the global balance of power, combined with crises in Western democratic countries, as well as the maintenance of economic inequalities worldwide, have damaged the credibility of the liberal world order as it was built after World War II," and stressed that "respect for international law and the United Nations Charter is not a rhetorical figure or an outdated perception of another era or romanticism, but an inescapable necessity and the only way forward for humanity."
ANA-MPA is a COMMUNICATION SUPPORTER of the "29th Annual Government Roundtable - Walking steadily across a tightrope of uncertainty."
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