DIPLOMACY


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ECONOMY

Japan’s Ambassador to Greece Νakayama Yasunori was briefed by Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) Deputy CEO Captain Weng Lin on the significant investments being implemented at Greece’s main port, during a visit to OLP headquarters on Tuesday.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in China, November 2019. ‘The Cyprus question, in particular, constitutes an example where China’s clout in evoking the UN framework and multilateralism will matter,’ the author says.
OPINION

The last weeks have been significant for Greek foreign policy. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended June’s NATO summit that elaborated on the new priorities of the Alliance in the era of American-Russian and Sino-American antagonism.


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NEWS

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Cairo on Tuesday.

[AP]
NEWS

In what was seen as a message to Greece, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of seismic surveys by Turkish ships in the area between the islands of Rhodes and Crete since last year’s exploratory activities by the Turkish Oruc Reis vessel had not yielded any results.


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NEWS

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned on Tuesday Greek Ambassador Michael-Christos Diamessis to express its “strong protest” to the treatment of the Galatasaray soccer club ahead of a friendly match in Athens a day earlier, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

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NEWS

As part of the groundwork for the planned EastMed natural gas pipeline, Greece, Cyprus and Israel have leased a research vessel to conduct seismic surveys between Cyprus and Crete, and also between Cyprus and Israel.



[Reuters]
OPINION

There is one US policy that has not changed with the departure of Donald Trump and the arrival of President Joe Biden, and that is toward China.

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NEWS

The strong relationship between Greece and China was reaffirmed Wednesday in a phone call between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 15th anniversary of the Integrated Strategic Partnership agreement in 2006.

[Nikos Kokkalias]
AGUILA SALEH

In the aftermath of the Second Berlin Conference on Libya, Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Aguila Saleh Issa, one of the most powerful politicians in the country after the ceasefire and the forming of a Government of National Unity, visited Athens last week at the invitation of his Greek counterpart Konstantinos Tasoulas.


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NEWS

The Consulate General of Greece in Benghazi was inaugurated on Monday by Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Fragogiannis who headed a large Greek delegation on a two-day visit to Libya.