The management of our mineral wealth : These strategic stocks require the actions of people with judgment and abilities.

When we are witnessing the incompetence of many politicians to comprehend the reality of the hydrocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the major prospects they offer to both Greece and Cyprus, we are wondering as to how they will manage the mineral wealth of the two States of Hellenism.

Because, even with the new data, instead of changing their priority order, and to stop dealing with meaningless matters which are nothing more than just partisanly movements, they continue along the same line, in order to convince their voters that they are actually doing something, but we well know what their aim is, and it has nothing to do with what constitutes the national interest.

• On the other hand, if we assume that other countries, and specifically one of them, would sit around motionless, at the display of such incompetence at a strategic level, then we are making an enormous mistake.

• Because these strategic stocks require the actions of people with judgment and abilities.

At the stage we have reached at this point, we must conceive the strategic planning, in order to be ready for the business plan, as we're already delaying the progress for the future.

• We are no longer wondering whether or not we obtain hydrocarbons, as we are aware that we do so. This is an element towards the continuity.

It is therefore necessary to focus on these elements, instead of wasting time with talks and negotiations which are of no benefit due to dogmatism.

Because in the bottom line, this incompetence will carry a cost for Hellenism as a whole, and not only for the political system for which we couldn't care less, if they can't manage our mineral wealth for the future of our people.
   [E, Conophagos, N. Lygeros, A. Foskolos
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias
  [lygeros - OPUS]