During an interview on ERT earlier on Saturday, the General Secretary of the CC of the
Communist Party of Greece Dimitris Koutsoumbas repeated the firm
stance of the KKE against the Prespes Agreement (between the
governments of Greece and FYR of Macedonia), confirming that the
Party will not vote in favor of the deal when it comes to the
Parliament.
Secretary Koutsoumbas
said that from the beginning of the Macedonia naming issue in 1992,
the KKE had supported the possibility of an erga omnes-based commonly
accepted solution, with a name with a geographic designation, which
will not include irredentist aspirations.
As he said, the KKE had said that such a development should be “compined against organizations such as NATO and the EU which act through “divide and rule”, by intervening, changing borders and separating people, something that we saw in 1999 with the dissolutioon of Yugoslavia where the big problem of the neighboring republic emerged”.
As he said, the KKE had said that such a development should be “compined against organizations such as NATO and the EU which act through “divide and rule”, by intervening, changing borders and separating people, something that we saw in 1999 with the dissolutioon of Yugoslavia where the big problem of the neighboring republic emerged”.
The Communist Party
General Secretary added that the KKE has the same stance today, being
in favor of solidarity, friendship and common activity with the
people and the workers of the neighboring country, without
irredentisms and nationalisms on either side, without the
unhistorical claims about “Alexander the Great” and “Macedonian
language and identity” and “of course against NATO”.
Dimitris Koutsoumbas
stressed that the essence of the Prespes Agreement is the integration
of FYROM in NATO, as it is “explicitly identified in its second
article” and underlined that the KKE will not vote – under any
circumstance- in favor of such an agreement which “puts the
neighboring country in the wolve-pack alliance of NATO and which does
not guarantee peace, friendship and good cooperation in the upcoming
period”.
The General Secretary
pointed out that the KKE's internationalism “is identified with
patriotism” and more specifically that “it is identified with the
defense of the homeland of the workers, not of the ruling class which
has economic interests and wages wars for the benefit of her
profits”. D. Koutsoumbas also said that the stance of the KKE goes
hand by hand with the struggle of the working people in FYROM
“against NATO membership and against the repression exercised by
their bourgeoisie”. He added that those who will have political and
economic benefits will be the large monopolies, Mrs. Merkel “who
came here for the German capital's business and in order to support
Mr. Tsipras” and Mr. Trump, as well as sections of the bourgeois
class.
Regarding elections
(either extaordinary national elections or the local-EU elections of
May), Koutsoumbas said that the KKE is ready for the electoral
battles and stressed the need for the strengthening of the Communist
Party which is the only that can make a real difference in favor of
the people's interests today. He pointed out that the stronger the
KKE is the best for the interest of the Greek people, not only for
the prevention of the anti-people measures but also for the opening
of another way of development.
