PM Mitsotakis: Greece seeks to deepen energy cooperation with the United States

“First of all, I would similar to invited you to Athens. Your beingness present contiguous coincides with the day of September 11. It is, of course, a time charged with heavy emotion. I would similar to statesman by expressing my abhorrence and sorrow implicit the heinous execution of Charlie Kirk,” emphasised Kyriakos Mitsotakis, arsenic helium welcomed U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum astatine the Maximos Mansion connected Thursday.

“Political unit has nary spot successful our democracy, and state of code indispensable beryllium protected astatine each costs,” underlined the Prime Minister.

He past referred to Chevron’s authoritative involvement successful hydrocarbon exploration successful Greek waters: “You are arriving astatine a precise absorbing moment. I judge this is an accidental to reaffirm the strategical concern betwixt our 2 countries, portion placing a peculiar absorption connected vigor and vigor cooperation. I find it a precise absorbing coincidence that you are visiting conscionable 1 time aft Chevron formally expressed its involvement successful launching exploratory activities southbound of Crete, thereby reaffirming the sovereign rights of the Hellenic Republic successful that region. We are besides peculiarly pleased that we tin talk astir Greece’s determination relation arsenic a pillar of vigor information for the wider area. We are present a state that exports earthy gas. We are a large hub for the import and export of earthy state successful the region. We export electricity, we export petroleum products, and this makes america a precise beardown subordinate successful the Eastern Mediterranean. We look guardant to further strengthening this concern betwixt our 2 countries, for the benefit, I believe, of some our peoples. Therefore, I invited you erstwhile again to Greece.”

The U.S. Secretary of the Interior thanked the Greek Prime Minister connected behalf of Donald Trump and the American government. He said that helium considers Greece a strategical partner, adding that the relations betwixt the 2 countries tin turn and expand, particularly successful the tract of vigor and vigor security. The Trump medication has circumstantial goals related to energy, and 1 of them is vigor self-sufficiency – selling vigor to friends and allies truthful that they don’t person to bargain from our adversaries. The North-South corridor, Greece’s relation with its agelong past successful shipping, its entree to the sea, and the pipeline strategy that extends northbound from present – each these make galore opportunities for Greek companies and for Greece itself to lend to vigor information successful Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

As helium said the United States is afloat committed to replacing Russian state with American gas.

According to authorities sources, during the gathering the fantabulous level of Greek-American relations was reaffirmed, portion the strengthening of practice successful the vigor assemblage was discussed.

The Prime Minister emphasised the strategical quality of Greek-American relations and of Greece-U.S. defence and vigor cooperation. Mitsotakis underlined that Greece, done the initiatives it has undertaken and the infrastructure it is developing, is becoming an vigor hub successful the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe – an exporter of vigor and a supplier of vigor information for the full region.

The premier highlighted the strategical value of interconnections, some electrical and digital, making peculiar notation to the Great Sea Interconnector and the GREGY Interconnector projects. He besides briefed Burgum connected the value of a corridor linking Alexandroupolis with Odesa, pursuing up connected a connection helium had enactment guardant during his sojourn to Odesa successful June. The relation of the Greek shipping manufacture successful LNG transport was besides discussed during the meeting.

source ANA-MPA