AKEL MP Giorgos Loukaides: The Mediterranean should seek radical changes in the regional & international system

 

7 December 2021

AKEL MP Giorgos Loucaides said that the Mediterranean should pursue an alternative path and seek radical changes in the regional and international system to be able to confront many complex challenges.

Giorgos Loukaides participated yesterday in a meeting of the Political Affairs and Democracy Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Paris, according to a press release issued by the House of Representatives.

As is reported, during the discussion on the geopolitical importance of the Mediterranean, the AKEL MP said if we seek to fulfill the goal of turning the Mediterranean into a basin of peace, stability, cooperation and prosperity. Cooperation and not competition should prevail, there should be a peaceful resolution of ongoing disputes and not increasing militarisation. Furthermore, what must prevail is international law and the protection of human rights and not any selfish interests and the law of the mighty.

In addition, in response to a Turkish MP, G.Loukaides pointed out that Turkey was and remains an occupying power, which continues to violate international law and the basic human rights and freedoms of the Cypriot people.

Turkey, he underlined, following a highly provocative and aggressive policy and in its attempt to impose itself as a leading regional power, is constantly violating the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus, in violation of international law, imposing fait accompli in Famagusta against the relevant United Nations resolutions and generally provoking constant tensions.

Such actions, the AKEL MP noted, seriously harm efforts for a resumption of the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus problem, and undermine the goal of achieving conditions of peace, security, stability and prosperity for the peoples of the Mediterranean.