"New call for court to mend Greek-Turkish ties
The former president of the republic, Kostis Stephanopoulos, has restated that employing the International Court at the Hague is an option for the resolution of differences with Turkey, and that demilitarisation of the Aegean islands would be an error until agreement is reached.
'Militarisation of the (eastern Aegean) islands is necessary as long as there is a threat....After a total decision on all matters at the court, if such a decision is obtained and our relations with Turkey are definitively settled, then there would no longer be a danger of war, nor danger for the islands,' Stephanopoulos said in an article published in the Sunday Kathimerini newspaper. "
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