As long as our country remains under occupation and Turkey is threatening with new achievements, the National Guard must be on high alert, as the pre-eminent force of deterrence and protection of our statehood and our national sovereignty, Defence Minister Haralambos Petrides said, adding that for these reasons it is imperative to strengthen and continuously upgrade our defence.
We are steadily moving forward, he stressed, in the acquisition of new, necessary under the circumstances, weapon systems.
In his address at the ceremony of awarding medals to members of the National Guard, read by the Chief of the National Guard, Lieutenant General Demokritos Zervakis, the Minister said that in this extremely critical period we are going through, with Turkey's increasing provocations at every opportunity, its destabilizing actions in the EEZ of al
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