[Alexandros Avramidis/Intime News]
Greece is able to “look to the future with optimism and self-confidence,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday, in comments to mark the anniversary of Ochi Day – the country’s rejection of an Italian ultimatum to surrender on October 28, 1940.
“The truly impressive political and military parade in Thessaloniki reflects the image of a country that respects and honors the glorious moments of its past. At the same time, however, it is able to look to the future with optimism and self-confidence,” he said after the end of the military parade.
“We live in turbulent and difficult times, but the military parade, which we watched today, makes us all feel at ease that the Armed Forces are always here to defend this freedom, for which our ancestors fought.”