Tsipras delivered the following speech on Tuesday as part of the Inter-party Parliamentary Committee for Claiming the German Reparations.

I take the floor today in this historic meeting not only for symbolic, but also for substantive reasons.

First and foremost, in order to pay tribute to the victims of Word War II. But also in order to honor the male and female fighters from all over the world who gave their lives for the freedom of their homelands, who gave their lives in order to defeat Nazism that threw its poisonous fog over the people of the world.