It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.

Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Those who believe that if someone who would want to radically change the foreign policy of a country such as the United States, which is very difficult, and often although some of us in here who may fear that this may happen, what we should be doing is build bridges, not walls.

Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.