Former PM Papandreou on Prespes Agreement: Division should be avoided at all costs
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Former Greek Prime Minister and President of Socialist International, George Papandreou, said he still welcomes the Prespes Agreement in an interview that will be published on Saturday in EfSyn newspaper.
Papandreou had already expressed this opinion in 2018, when he also referred to the agreement as a “balanced solution” while speaking at the Political Council of the Movement for Change (KINAL).
“Our first concern”, Papandreou told EfSyn, “should be to avoid division over a foreign policy matter, in this case the Macedonian issue. The use of difficult issues promote the agenda of political parties had been done in the past, with disastrous consequences for the Greek people and the country. Going to elections in a climate of division and mutual accusations over who is a patriot and who a traitor would be catastrophic,” Papandreou stated.
According to sources in EfSyn, in the interview Papandreou will also express his views on FYROM’s note verbale on meeting the Prespes Agreement terms; the prospect of a New Democracy-KINAL coalition and the dialogue between left-wing and democratic forces.
Source: ANA-MPA
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