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russian president vladimir putin maritime tension i bring up between athens showdown imminent and what role is moscow to play i sat down to discuss all of this with george to foreign minister. russia's gas business hoping to have the. gas pipeline through its security a stable supply is a reasonable price but with brussels being frosty about russian energy related. to the project with greeks oil. deals with individual members. will that mean for greece but it's winter. at the gallows thank you for being with us today on our program it's a pleasure welcome to me so let's talk about prime minister to press and present putin are set to discuss the turks trade natural gas pipeline project which

actually have possible extension to greece so i understand the moscow is yet to decide whether this will go through. or greece how do you thing your prime minister will convince that it is more profitable for russia to actually tilt towards grace rather than bulgaria well. or maybe not even more important these. leaders are going to discuss the first time. in my. world but also for. a lot of pipelines. going through. and i think. there are some for the federation we cover them.

from brussels we got the visibility we'll get to brussels why do you think in european in russia should go for a grace rather than bulgaria there are many technical reasons really got it in the feasibility aspects of the project we have better possibilities for infrastructure our neighbors but ok this is up to the o.c. on the federation to decide so ok let's talk about brussels your prime minister has also been talking to brussels about greece getting at turkey stream pipeline do you think he can push it through using wrestles brussels will agree and support this there is a very great similarity and i would see between the lead up with this you know so far north slim and through history so what will it always saying is that whatever is going to happen regarding the one must go up into the other so it's not a difficult situation for us we say that to the european commission we must have the same standards so then there is hungary it's also hoping to get some benefits

from the project that it's actually demanding from brussels to stop putting spokes in the wheels that's a quote do you think that's what they're doing their thing that's what brussels is doing actually putting us in there we must ask about hungary answer about that about you i know you very very concerned and i'm one of them observer. european union is our home but what they were trying to do is also building bridges between european union and russia was. through with these. bags of french super fast so what they were trying to do is something really been if not just for us and then also for the reasonable course of that also for the european union as well sure i mean i wouldn't expect any other answer from a foreign minister than this but i just you know what's the big effort with well but it's just like for for us it is interesting to observe how different members of the european union. within this big family are men no ring or reacting to to this

or that project especially they got to have lines where it has when it comes to russia because you know that historically gas pipe pipelines that go from russia to europe have met opposition and resistance but first as lately south from pipeline another gas project went down thanks to ia commission's opposition. look who we have some fundamental you know or foreign policy respect to fit the national low of utopia low a following. but we says that we're going to see that the only way to settle disputes is through a political dialogue and also by building economic ties so we've got an economic diplomacy not strong complement of normal political diplomacy and as i said we did not consider that there was a phobia that something some minds exists is that i'd wait to treat the differences

we have between the european union and russia and then there's like a german approach for instance right. for example in brussels and washington where scolding germany for building the nordstrom to germans were like you know what will take care of this on our own thank you they were very firm about that do you think greece can have same sort of position if it is pressured from brussels. not bresson brussels have legal opinions and you know you have two lawyers who maybe sometimes you've got three opinions but here it's not so much about the giudice last but the vote that this was more about the. interests of the european union russia national interests we are very much aligned with. and we are very much aligned in the position that whatever is going to happen with a muslim there's not any kind of reason not to be a cop and also with the extreme and whatever. but there were other by applying

these in the same league which is about texting right now for a show is a hot topic that's why i'm talking about this so much ok you're saying there is no pressure from brussels just legal points of view but there's certainly a lot of. opinions coming from america for instance america says that turks train threatens europe's energy security i mean meanwhile this pipeline will be able to supply thirty one point five billion cubic meters of natural gas to europe what america tells europe not to have that does it have an understanding of europe's energy needs well and i think states have. been you know that but if you compare the amount of gas that's passing through north into the amount of gas that is going to pass through to your allies that it's a very small percentage for the lot so even if we take into account of the american concerns what is important is the north remove it through the system so.

if the political course and so fathers for us of the europeans remains this isn't a force in which almost respect just our interests and also our legal framework but you know you started this interview saying that you think greece should be greece should be like a help should be multitudes of pipelines going through greece and united states is actually saying that turks trim project won't increase energy diversification meanwhile united states is offering natural gas which is more expensive what greece is getting right now do you think race is willing to pay the price gap but this exact reverse is this is why. i said that that whole because of the european you know but we're trying to follow multidimensional economic and political diplomacy and the one i'm saying we want to be a hub of many pipelines i covered mined by blame is coming from because b. and i have in mind the pipelines coming from the middle east is that used to made

by foreign mind and worrying that the possibility is to have energy for the united states because this is the position we have we want to be some kind of a natural beads between africa europe and this is the benefit of everybody and it's not against the interests of anybody else so i will talk a little bit about is mad and want to understand your logic a little more this is a pipeline is also supposed to run through grease from israel right. but turn stream to you will deliver sooner and cheaper. does it make sense to have another pipeline just for diversification when you already what the needs of you know gas supply are that we are speaking about the economic diplomacy and not just about the gains and losses exactly because issues like that energy security what the. economists are going to win. started sick interests legal framework

european know all of that. and cannot be isolated and one of the reasons that we want to have these multidimensional economic diplomacy is exactly because we want to have at the political level the dimension of diplomacy also in order to what their national interests so i think that there were a lot of quite. serious and. with ourselves when we were following this approach so just in may european commission and gaspar merged in agreement where it obliges gas from to provide as much gas as needed at competitive prices to europe so with this agreement reached with the european supply now cheap and secure is diversification that there was to be cations deal an issue yes definitely jason is always an issue it's like if you are an investor you do not want to put all your money in you know one project you know or even in

a blue chip you must have the possibility to have a diversity or for you know the sources show us any political turmoil not to have a serious impact or you're not going to so you know sanctions are sour sore point for us for russians. european countries are united on the question of anti russian sanctions whether they're friendly towards russia or not they're all for entire russian sections but that when it comes to the as they don't mind having a pie of gas problem does it make it a little harder to argue for sanctions when you're at the same time getting i would not agree with first of all with. saying that or european countries have the same let's see the standing of that. one is that this is a mistake and all of us must respect that because i said the european union is our common home. base the diplomacy must be the one for everybody in.

spectum this is for them but any time that the greece has to discuss in the audience of the european union essential sanctions we were always saying that section so not productive and the only productive way to incorporate that into the european system of security that. we need to make goal is the political dialogue so we are trying to be very very constructive without being. with the european union and. of course i'm repeating myself this is a mistake and this is would be respected we're going to take a break right now when we come back we'll continue talking to an. alternative foreign minister talking about the prospects of the turks train pipeline and many other issues stay with us.

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now we're back with alternative foreign minister of greece george got to the gallows mr got without us i want to talk about cyprus a little bit because it also could become another gas producer in the region has already announced drilling plans but turkey obviously has a problem with that it says to actually stay away from cypriot gas until a political solution is found to the divided island but do you think maybe economic benefits of the drilling to can help find a political solution quick or there is only one thing that the. first two they're not going to do that are so for states these are the last fellow because it's only through respect for the national low that we've got to have an organized international community so what the. republicans are doing is exactly exercising its show that invites

it out in conformity with the with this pressure of the of the sea and. is exactly not something that we can understand explained by reasonable four different conflicting this is something that they want to buy this would reject exactly because it's in violation of it and i saw no show in this is like that that this vote if it's profitable or not it is if it is legal or not so you have said i think i'm quoting here right now that his reaction to this issue is erratic and it's a demonstration of weakness to athens have a stronger position on this issue and play push ancora i'm going to float them to the court to you but for him to. did you not say there you know it's obviously not the discussion that what they said is that i want your provocative when it is clear

that you're right that i am to let's say it's to protect by were this is really. implicit proof that you are not strong but you are weak in their weakness is exactly an activity i guess that i still know that there's not us that we're saying that. i'm out of this year the european council the council of the leaders of the european union has got at that i was that is illegal is contrary to do not sell no similar block this is so full of and when i was speaking about the weakness of our neighbors with which to want to have a peaceful relation is exactly a witness stand for the fact that i can against that that i love and release him because of these facts so another issue in relations between athens and aren't kyra is the greek territorial waters because greek grace wants to extend its maritime borders according to this convention u.n.

convention that would actually give it to right to do so but i've got a saying well we haven't signed this convention so they're not having any of that how far is athens willing to push with this i mean this could create a pretty nervous situation now you said that this is their move from an international treaty that has been signed now by the but i could tell it all. over the world besides the turkey but to see exactly and to you know that they're not going low the say that the son of general acceptance of the rules is becoming not. bait to be there but also gets the money. so with the course either that the us and i. respect our solve it and i'd like to expand. their thought about us but there's some. more than that and. it's a demonstration of my claim that there are gays not acting within international no

duty to be exact not the recently from right this is enough it's not one simply that in the something kids said said that they have said that the course if they like us believe the possibility that the exercise of out in right the extent they did it all in all those but threat of four years of violence is against something even more fundamental the lova see that south of the going to the united nations because even we want to have a peaceful corporation then the absolute necessity that can this is nick of unknown is not to have the war as possibilities of politics in other means and every nation that is threatening our neighbor by war by use of violence by this act it's putting itself out of the international legal order so according to

recent reports greece is also seeking to end the to meet your assistance class of the day lisbon treaty to stress that its maritime borders are also those of the e.u. how willing do you think brussels will be to back you on that this is. an idea of president mike wrong that we are back in just bitching about the truth and that there are apparently europeans are wearing that has as other bases this article of the three d. i've been forced to do by going to seven similarly to the other thirty five are made the hood says practically that every european country would sub that out back . has the right to ask the assistance of its allies of its members of the european union we could see that us as a self evident. obligation of the european union to protect its borders because the borders of the european union have the borders of the members. and this

is one of the reasons that we are supporting european defense capacity recently because that mccrone in that sense that our medical have spoken about the european out of me maybe it's actually to speak about that but this vision of a utopian support that gets its member states into its citizens i think it's a vision of europe of that we want to say oh well first of all you have nato what do you need your army for nato did not protect us live now from threats like that exactly because that is also a member of nato so do you think a european army would be an alternative to nato no european defense it is going to be complimentary to nato and will remain members of nato and one of the few members that satisfy your brigade soon to be two percent of the about that for defense a b.

like this but as i said with a not to want to have i lions ideas to do this is not a basic of us are not what do we want this to be friends with duty but that i suppose this respect mutual respect the fellow we cannot be friends if we do not have agreed to the rules that we are going to follow you know what i always wondered i mean you greece and turkey are both members of nato do you think that's what essentially keeps you away from a military confrontation with each other i also wonder. dorothy. mind before they saw that to be true said the intern in case what do we want to engage them in a dialogue. as a final goal to is old. exactly by different means through political dialogue and we hope that the will come at sea of. gold and

talk a bit about the my current crisis greece has been hit very hard by the looks of migrants into europe but then the e.u. turkey refugee deal sort of eased. the burden and. lighten the burden for grace can and antagonizing actually lead to the failure of this agreement do you think were during the crisis maybe exactly this agreement between european union to keep these are usually cooperation between european union men today between us and two if you're going to be mutually beneficial. of course migration not be treated as a natural only so it is a noble issue and especially within the confines of the european union must be true that there's a utopian one this is social in these aspect of our way of thinking a collective way of engaging everybody in something that we think finally would be

beneficial again when everybody looking westwards now a greek economy is yet to fully recover from all the bailout trauma it went through and a lot of banks are still in heavy debt are you confident in the country do you think it's steering through and staying afloat yes why would. we cover six consecutive of course those with growth last quarter. growth of two point two percent projections for next year is a for a growth of two point five percent. of course we have still in the good society that can lay some of it years of misery but was that going to leave all that behind us and not just the canonically getting out of the program of the program so for us as month is also a return to full democratic control over the fate of our nation so with other levels from the mochas the end of economy we have really don't update after all so

series our has been brought to powering raised by disillusioned voters fed up with the regular faces in politics do you think all of this and you're part of this common pan-european trend of shaking up conventional establishment. it is not the greek for those the good citizens that they are feeling. this in saying that by what's happened in europe even the european commission that's one thing it's a huge panhandler appear movement i'm very confident of that and i'm saying that even the european commission you need to reset the book what the book about the future of europe say is that we are the first the generation of europeans who fears that who feel that the children are going to have a worse life than ours and we see this feeling in the that is not that evolved in france in the let's say the. reversal

of the political system in there's a little sister to be very politically stable so what is for sure is that this does mother meant that will frustrate these explosion of inequalities cannot continue like that they tell that question is this talent is going to be met by a progress of response as the one that we have client do to build a utopian alliance with other powers of the equality or the social democracy or they are going to prevail again it is that horses who do want. two we did in europe you know gordon and that's when i used the past that never existed therefore we have speaking about two europe's going to a front it's either you know the next european elections that we believe that the europe of progress of openness or human rights and freedoms is going to prevail so why do you think that the ingres the popular discontent movement actually resulted

in a left government and everywhere else in europe in their right trump style well it is not a universal would you have saying look. at what's happened in the u.k. but even at the united states this feeling they're working class that. the amounts are not met it is. as i said. i was. saying that for the first. if you look at the program of course those got good to see the political positions that go with. that we've got to have. especially.

for the big majority for the working class of. their purchasing power has diminished because all this money printing that's going on and can't tell if. the people on.

those people who are working blue collar jobs. figured out that this is a. system that they need to address a quid pro quo. prosecution will need to be criminals in this show. because where you question the threat of fines somebody done on purpose you do i'm young i mean political pressure on the. security industry knows what kind of business models he was by american corporations. of what he's sold on could matilda's it as. he controls key a man who was. the solution. in

association with potato. a little can he sell some of those it is just somebody he's of deleting. an investigative documentary. ghost war on. a temporary truce in the us china trade war well in the hold and what happens if it doesn't we'll take a look at that on this edition of politics. welcome to politicking i'm larry king after months of escalating tariffs in the u.s. china trade war the nation's two leaders agreed to a ninety day truce following the recent g twenty summit.