Greece, Israel highlight potential of India-Europe trade route

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel speaks astatine the astatine the “Energy Transition Summit: East Med & Southeast Europe” successful Athens, organized by the Financial Times successful concern with Kathimerini.

Plans for a caller planetary trade way linking Europe with India done the Middle East connection immense economical imaginable and a committedness of stability successful a portion battered by strife, elder Greek and Israeli diplomats said Wednesday.

Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou and her Israeli counterpart, Sharren Haskel, some praised the imaginable benefits of the projected India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, oregon IMEC.

They spoke astatine the “Energy Transition Summit: East Med & Southeast Europe” successful Athens, organized by the Financial Times successful concern with Kathimerini.

“[IMEC] is the existent semipermanent certificate for stability successful the region,” Papadopoulou said. “IMEC is the task that truly encompasses determination integration … [It] will alteration the whole portion from India each the way to Europe.”

Haskel said Israel sees tremendous imaginable and opportunities successful the project.

“I think it’s going to beryllium huge,” she said. “I mean, everybody are researching present alternate routes arsenic well. Israel sees itself arsenic a cardinal spouse successful IMEC.”

The two lawman ministers besides stressed the closeness of ties betwixt Greece and Israel.

“I think there’s a immense imaginable for a continuation of collaboration, whether it is connected the information side, the economical side, whether it is business-to-business, but specifically connected infrastructures and energy,” Haskel said. “And I think our narration goes besides thousands of years back. These are two past civilizations that person shared so overmuch with the world arsenic well.”

Papadopoulou said the bilateral narration has survived a string of antithetic Greek governments.

“So it … has the support of … the afloat spectrum, oregon a large portion of the spectrum of the Greek governmental leaders, which is simply a warrant precisely for the duration and the stability of this relationship,” she said. “We tin service arsenic a bully illustration of adjacent practice betwixt two countries that stock akin goals and akin objectives astir stability, peace, and prosperity successful the full region.”