In a carefully worded statement-released while the prime minister was still speaking-Dendias emphasized that the Armed Forces would not allow the monument to become a tool of political maneuvering or social division. Greece's Defense Minister Nikos Dendias appeared to distance himself from Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday, during a parliamentary debate over the government's controversial amendment concerning the Monument of the Unknown Soldier, a deeply symbolic landmark in central Athens. In a carefully worded statement-released while the prime minister was still speaking-Dendias emphasized that the Armed Forces would not allow the monument to become a tool of political maneuvering or social division. "The Monument of the Unknown Soldier is inseparable from national memory-a space of unity and respect for those who sacrificed their lives for the homeland," Dendias said. "It must never be used to advance political goals.