State Department Report: Negative for Greece – What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say

The annual was published State Department report for Human Rights in nearly 200 countries and territories in the world, by head of American Diplomacy, Anthony Blinken.

The report has been issued annually by the US State Department since 1977.

With regard to Greece it states that there has been no substantial change in the protection of human rights.

In particular it states that there have been credible reports on the following important human rights issues: cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of detainees and migrants and asylum seekers by law enforcement authorities. Offenses involving violence against members of national, racial or ethnic minority groups, as well as offenses involving violence or the threat of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex persons.

The government, consequently, took steps to investigate, prosecute and punish officials who committed human rights abuses, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in government. There have, however, been complaints from non-governmental organizations and international organizations about the government’s failure to effectively investigate allegations of forced

State Department Report: The Foreign Ministry’s response

“The report records, without further investigationallegations by non-governmental organizations that are not independently audited,” the State Department said in a statement on the US State Department’s human rights report.

“Precisely because of this indiscriminate recording, it appears that in all countries with a developed rule of law there are serious human rights issues”emphasizes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while adding: “Particularly important for the integrity, reliability and objectivity of the report is the fact that the opinion of the Greek state was not sought in relation to the mentioned issues.”

As noted, “although the progress in relation to the protection of rights in Greece is recognized on many levels, the report overlooks or completely ignores regulatory interventions and national strategies of recent years to ensure the rights of vulnerable categories of citizens, such as the disabled, LGBTQI and unaccompanied minors».

It is also emphasized that over time, the reports on Greece present similar human rights issues. Especially in the period 2016-2019 very serious complaints were made, which gradually disappeared.

“The Greek government will continue to consistently serve democracy and the rule of law in Greece, deepening the essential equality of citizens and their individual and social rights and improving their standard of living”ends up.

Stefanos Kasselakis: “Mr. Mitsotakis should look in the mirror”

“Two months after the European Parliament’s resolution on the rule of law in Greece, now comes the report – its State Department for human rights in Greece”, says Stefanos Kasselakis in his post.

The president of SYRIZA-PS comments in the form of a question: “after Macron’s Renew Europe, Solz’s and Sanchez’s Social Democrats, Burbok’s Greens and the European Left – whom the government’s conspiracy scenarios have included among the country’s enemies – Is American President Biden now added to the list?” In the same spirit he asks “why would so many countries and leaders of such different hues want to attack – all of them! – the “successful” prime minister?».

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“Is something seriously wrong in our country? So wrong that the international community can no longer turn a blind eye?“, he notes, commenting: “Should Kyriakos Mitsotakis leave the conspiracy theories and look in the mirror?”

Mr. Kasselakis emphasizes for SYRIZA-PS that “50 years since the restoration of Democracy in the country where it was born, we have a duty to stop the institutional decline».

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