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US President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss problematic bilateral ties on Monday including Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles, but there is little hope they will resolve any of several disputes that divide NATO.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and US President Joe Biden must use a meeting on Monday to move on from past troubles, including a bitter dispute over Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles.
![Visitors at New York’s Washington Square Park, May 25. For decades, certain corners of the city were so smoothed by money they seemed off-limits to those just starting out as adults. But for one brief shining moment, it all belongs to the young. [Daniel Arnold/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NY-YOUTH-RESURGENCE-7-320x200.jpg)
Walking around lower Manhattan on a recent weeknight, a middle-aged, slightly graying man wasn’t sure if it was he who had changed or New York.
Endy Zemenides, the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, joins The Greek Current to discuss the key elements of the US-Greece Defense and Interparliamentary Partnership Act of 2021, which was introduced by Senators Menendez and Rubio on Wednesday.
US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) in introducing new legislation to bolster the United States’ defense partnership with Greece.
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The United States have not singled that it would accept Turkey keeping the Russian-made S-400 defense system if it were under US custody, a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday.
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US Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday was joined by US Senator Marco Rubio in introducing new legislation to bolster the United States’ defense partnership with Greece.
![Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, Tuesday. [Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/blinken_reuters-3-320x200.jpg)
US President Joe Biden will raise the issue of Turkey’s activities in the Eastern Mediterranean during his upcoming meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. This is a developing story.
![Robert Bender, left, and Robert Druger, former students of Syracuse University, at a pizzeria before heading to campus in Syracuse, NY, May 31, 2021. A proposed law in New York would clear the way for people who were abused after turning 18 to sue for damages. [Heather Ainsworth/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NYT_ABUSE_DAMAGES_LAW_4-320x200.jpg)
After months of video calls and group emails, Robert Druger and Robert Bender agreed to meet for the first time on Memorial Day and revisit the places that had caused so much parallel anguish, four decades ago.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has eased its travel recommendations for 61 countries from its highest “Level 4” rating that had discouraged all travel to recommending travel for fully vaccinated individuals, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
![US President Joe Biden disembarks from Marine One prior to boarding Air Force One on his way back to Washington DC at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, on Friday. [Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/biden-33-320x200.jpg)
A major diplomatic game will take place in the middle of June with the face-to-face meetings between the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his subsequent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
US President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe this week will signal that multilateralism has survived the Trump years, and set the stage for transatlantic cooperation on challenges from China and Russia to climate change, the chairman of EU summits said.
![A welder works on a ship, in Brownsville, Texas on March 19. In Brownsville, Texas, Dominion is spending $500 million to build a ship capable of hauling large offshore wind equipment. [Verónica G. Cárdenas/The New York Times].](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BIDEN-OFFSHORE-WIND-4-320x200.jpg)
A constellation of 5,400 offshore wind turbines meet a growing portion of Europe’s energy needs. The United States has exactly seven.
![Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (r) and then US vice president Joe Biden chat after a meeting in Istanbul in Turkey on January 23, 2016. [Sedat Suna/Pool/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/biden_erdogan_-_reuters-320x200.jpg)
US President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will meet to discuss Syria, Afghanistan and other regional issues next week and will also look at the “significant differences” between Washington and Ankara, the US national security advisor said on Monday.
On November 19, 1987, the US Senate amended the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act to declare “defense articles of United States origin may not be transferred to or used on Cyprus by Turkey or Greece.”
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