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GREEK-AMERICAN COOPERATION MOVES TO DC THIS WEEK

Money Trail has another analysis of the US-Greek alliance that is in the process of being build up. As we detailed in previous posts (links), the fields of action are strategic and military, as well as civic: Chevron gas drilling surveys in the seas off Greece, shipping of American LNG, the Vertical Gas Corridor to middle and eastern Europe, the upgrading of the port of Eleusis, a plan to rebuild and strengthen the maritime industry, and the strategic 3+1 framework that allies the US with Greece, Israel and Cyprus. After the energy agreements signed at the Transatlantic Energy Conference (P-TEC)(link) and at the Acropolis Museum last week (link), the theater is moving this week to DC. 


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The Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou, is visiting DC to speak at the event "10 Years of US-EU LNG Cooperation" with participation of European counterparts and attend a meeting of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (link). 

Afterwards Papastavrou has a meeting with the US National Energy Security Council on the "Transatlantic Gas Security Summit" at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. Papastavrou will also meet with members of Congress (link). 

On Wednesday, Papastavrou will hold bilateral meetings with the Secretary of the Interior and Chairman of the US National Energy Security Council, Doug Burgum, as well as with the Secretary of Energy and VP of the US National Energy Security Council, Chris Wright. 

For his part Foreign Minister Yorgos Gerapetritis is also in DC for meetings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and to deliver a speech at the Atlantic Council.

Gerapetritis will attend the signing ceremony of an agreement between ONEX Shipyards and South Korean Hanwha Power Systems, as part of the US strategic plan to rebuild and strengthen its domestic shipbuilding and maritime industry(link). 

Last Friday PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis met in Athens with a congressional delegation led by Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas (link) that focused on a broad spectrum of Greek-American relations. 

Significantly, Mitsotakis also met in Athens with General Alexus G. Grynkewich who is the current Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (link). 

On Thursday PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Michael Kratsios, adviser to President Trump and head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. They discussed prospects for cooperation in the field of technology and AI (link).

Geopolitics and military podcaster Angelos Chorianopoulos has an article in Democracy newspaper about the establishment of joint air defense and naval protection of critical infrastructure that raises the level of strategic deterrence and limits the margins for hybrid attacks for Greece, Cyprus, and Israel (link). 

In the meantime the immense aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has docked at the American base at Souda Bay, Crete before sailing to Israel, to be deployed as part of the military build up in the region amid escalating tensions and the possibility of action against Iran. Chorianopoulos reports (video). 






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