Pavlopoulos: Claim for German reparations can be pursued in court
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President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said that judicial procedures on the German reparations are totally legal, in his address on Sunday at the city hall of Lamia before being declared honorary citizen of the town.
The president focused on his interest for national unity and answering to Lamia mayor Nikos Stavroyiannis who asked for his contribution in the claim for the German reparations and the occupation loan he noted “I have supported as professor and as President that these claims are legal actions and can be pursued in court, this is my opinion and I insist on it. And this is the opinion of a large number of noted European lawyers, he said. “We do not ask for revenge. We do not argue with anyone.”
Pavlopoulos clarified “as they ask from us to fulfill our obligations, as they ask us to follow the international law, we only ask for the same. With political and institutional ways we will claim what belongs to us from the responsible judicial fora. That’s our national duty. A demand for the old and the new generations. We will seek it as it suits our European civilization through the institutions of the European Law and I think that Greece’s vindication will be the vindication of Europe itself” he noted.
Referring to the latest developments and particularly on the terror attack in Paris, Pavlopoulos underlined Greece’s role noting “Greece is called on to defend again the principles and values of the west and of Europe” and called the terrorists “ruthless criminals” and attributed the violence to “odious manifestations of the Islamic fundamentalism” that do not reflect the “real values of the Islamic religion”.