«According to government leaks, France submitted a written note verbale to Turkey over the laying of the electricity interconnector cable, an unacceptable development that harms our national interests», the Hellenic Left Coalition (ELAS) said in a statement, adding:
«Any form of “notification” – especially in writing – to Turkey under threat of an incident, while the cable has been frozen for two years by military means, is in effect interpreted as a request for permission from Turkey and is already being presented as such by the Turkish media. After all, only the day before yesterday the Turkish Foreign Ministry stressed in a statement that the licensing process for the cable had not been completed, or had apparently been “settled”, as the Turkish foreign minister told us yesterday with the words “all is well”».
«This development is a serious blow to our national interests, which Turkey will seek to exploit in future to entrench its revisionist claims, including in relation to the Turkish-Libyan memorandum», the ELAS said, concluding its statement.