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Gerapetritis indulges in cross-kisses, prolonged, sloppy handshakes, high-fives and other companionship with various third-worlders, whom he considers buddies.

For some reason that I find it difficult to explain, the Prime Minister does not wish to part with the most unsuccessful and disastrous for national interests Foreign Minister of the post-coup period. He would do well, however, to lock him up. To ban him from international contacts, discreetly take away his passport and leave him in his office with his intelligent associates to develop the grand strategy on paper. Not on the ground.

For appointments with foreigners, it is better to send the usher or the ministry's coffee shop owner. They will certainly do better, avoiding the drooling and spilling of blood with those who, as soon as their backs are turned, stab them with a butcher's knife. Gerapetritis is a complete disaster – even the last Greek has understood this. He visits foreign capitals one after another as a wandering... hugger and spends himself in crossed kisses, prolonged, sloppy handshakes, high fives and other companionship with various third-worlders, whom he considers buddies. For the more serious ones, the big bosses, he prefers the protocol of bowing with his eyes on the floor.

The big problem is that the man does not understand what his interlocutors are saying to him. They spit on him and he smiles because he thinks it is raining! An experienced diplomatic editor, who watches him closely, told me, somewhat sarcastically, that the professor is a kind of romantic… voluntarist who adapts reality to the measures of his desires. Or, in other words, he transforms his own pious desires into “low-intensity diplomacy”. My own opinion is that the professor is something else. He belongs to a special mental category, the one to which the wise people always accuse and… cap. However, as a minister - and specifically of Foreign Affairs - he becomes extremely dangerous. He is increasingly reminiscent of that inexplicably given Prime Minister Stefanos Skouloudis, who, in order not to anger the Germans (in this case, see Turks), handed over Rupel and Eastern Macedonia to the Bulgarians!

Skouloudis escaped Goudi because he was… 80 years old. Goudi does not exist today, but there are certainly Greeks who will eventually chase the professor with a broomstick. His case is unique. Every trip he takes abroad constitutes a national disgrace. He thinks he “agrees”, and then he comes here, to our headquarters, to welcome with tight hugs those who “empty” him!

Consecutive blunders

As if that weren't enough, he hides his successive blunders from the Greek public. Our embassy in Cairo received the provocative verbal communication on July 5, but when the Prime Minister convened the National Council for Foreign Policy, more than two weeks later, he avoided informing the representatives of the political parties about the unfavorable development. Only so that the atmosphere of the day before yesterday's... hug with his Egyptian counterpart and the festivities in the establishment media about the alleged agreement regarding the historic Sinai Monastery, which in practice does not secure what is sought, would not be spoiled.

The Egyptians, completely disheartened, probably encouraged by the Turks, after receiving an extremely favorable arrangement for them of partial delimitation of the EEZ between us (until the 28th meridian, with the concession of a part of Greek influence in Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes), are now coming back to blackmail for additional Greek concessions. I simply remind you that the small and defenseless Cyprus, without being a member of the EU and NATO, signed an EEZ delimitation agreement with Egypt in 2003, ensuring full influence with mutual acceptance of the median line.

In just two years in office, Mr. Gerapetritis has managed to "shrink" Greece. The Prime Minister must immediately relieve us of his public presence. If he loves him so much and considers his presence irreplaceable for reasons of internal balance with large economic interests, let him keep him embalmed in a golden cage in the neoclassical Vasilissa Sophia and let him put someone else in charge of foreign policy.