Tsipras: ‘Open fronts will soon close and Greece will turn a page’
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Greece will soon overcome its three most pressing problems – the first review of its economic program, the refugee crisis and the debt issue – and will turn a new page, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Avghi newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
“The open fronts do not frighten us,” he was quoted as saying, adding that the government will manage in the most “effective and decisive” manner these three challenges. “When these fronts are closed – and will close very soon, Greece will have turned a page,” he said.
Commenting on the ongoing negotiations over the country’s adjustment program, the prime minister warned that delaying the negotiation “serves no one” and called on those who are “unilaterally stalling the positive completion of the first assessment to stop.” He said the government sent a month and a half ago its proposals for social security reforms and the institutions have not commented, while he noted that the program is being delayed because the institutions are disagreeing among themselves.
On the refugee crisis, Tsipras said the key to resolving the issue is transferring the management of the refugees to Turkey, as it has already been agreed between the EU and the neighboring country and explained that Greece accepted the intervention of NATO “under the very strict condition that they will respect our sovereignty and that both Greece and Turkey will operate within their own territorial waters.”
He also dismissed any scenarios for early elections, noting that they were held three months ago and that the government’s overall policy has already been judged by the people three times in less than a year.