The
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on Friday issued a statement in which it sharply criticizes the conservative government
of New Democracy (ND) for "tabling in Parliament, on Christmas
Eve, the Greece-US Agreement for expansion of military bases that was
signed in October 2018 following the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Athens, in the framework of the 'Strategic Dialogue' began by the
SYRIZA government."
In
the statement published on “Rizospastis”, the KKE calls
the agreement “a criminal one”, pointing out that the deal "will
allow the United States to keep and operate military and related
structures within Greek armed forces facilities."
The KKE blasts the US and NATO for their role in the region, charging them with "seeing the Aegean as a single operational space, and preparing along with the European Commission plans to divvy up and jointly exploit Greek seas, violating sovereign rights."
The KKE blasts the US and NATO for their role in the region, charging them with "seeing the Aegean as a single operational space, and preparing along with the European Commission plans to divvy up and jointly exploit Greek seas, violating sovereign rights."
KKE
also criticized the previous government of SYRIZA of setting up US
military bases that play into American and NATO regional interests
and ultimately endanger Greece.
These
bases "bear no relation to the protection and security of
Greece," KKE said. "On the contrary, they turn the country
into a base of war operations and interventions to promote their
imperialist plans. Greece is becoming a magnet of possible attacks,
as Russian and Iranian armed forces have warned they will direct
their missiles to countries hosting American bases, if their
countries are threatened."
The Communist Party also stresses out that "Turkey is a NATO force and with this status escalates her aggression in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, questions and violates the borders".
In
the statement the KKE calls the workers-people's movement to
mobilizations, in order to condemn the Greek-US agreement, to remove
the “bases of death” from the country, to demand the
non-participation of Greek Armed Forces in imperialist missions
abroad and the disengagement of Greece from the wolf-pack alliances
of NATO and the EU.