Seizure campaign strategic relationship of Greece with important countries of the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, with the convening of three leading intergovernmental councils only in the first five months of 2025, the government is implemented, according to Maximus Grand officials.

The Supreme Cooperation Councils (ASS) are held in parallel with the Prime Minister’s contacts with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, March, and the newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz in Berlin at the beginning of this month, where Kyriakos Mitsos government.

The beginning was in January, When he met the first Supreme Council of Greece – Saudi Arabia, under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the de facto leader of the kingdom, Prince’s successor Mohammed bin Salman, who is one of the strongest political actors in the Middle East.

Government officials They described the meeting of the Association of the systematic effort to build the bilateral relationship by the Greek government and diplomacy, with the aim of attracting investment funds and increasing Greek influence in the Arab world. The ground was prepared thanks to the contacts between the two countries in previous years, with the prime minister meeting the Prince successor in 2021, 2022 and 2023, while at the same time the two leaders contacted at least twice.

The same sources underlined the importance it had for the Athens relationship with Riyadh The Mitsotakis Government’s decision four years ago to lend an array Patriot For Saudi Arabia’s air defense against the attacks of Houthi rebels by Yemen, who had repeatedly targeted Saudi oil facilities. As they said, the Greek side’s willingness to help S. Arabia paved the way for the strengthening of relationships on another basis in relation to the past.

Saudi Arabia is a particularly important partner for Greece, not only because of Riyadh’s “special weight” in the Sunni and Arab world, but also as it is the strongest counterweight to Turkey’s attempt to put post -war Syria into its sphere of influence. Saudi Arabia has been placed to fund the reconstruction of Syria’s critical infrastructure, as well as to provide necessary goods.

An indication of the multidimensional and mutually beneficial relationship with Saudi Arabia is that the two sides have agreed to set up seven committees to further deepen their cooperation. Among them are security and defense committees, as well as investment and trade.

On May 7 It was followed by the first Supreme Cooperation of Greece – Egypt, where the upgrading of the bilateral relationship was sealed strategic. There had been a double -digit number of prime minister meetings with President Abdel Fatah El Sisi, either at a bilateral or multilateral level.

The Greek Government is of particular value to cooperation with Cairo, on the one hand, because it considers that Egypt is a pillar of stability in the troubled area of ​​Northeast Africa and an irreplaceable “breakwater” against migratory flows from the sub -Saharan zone, on the other hand Sisi government In 2020 it was an exemplary agreement on the region in international law and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, as opposed to the illegal Turkish Memorandum.

The upgrading of the Greek-Egyptian relationship and the organization of the first ASS essentially continue to the Mitsotakis government’s attempt to build yet another corporate cooperation that is intensely shielding Greek interests in the wider region. In addition to the geopolitical value, the ASS has offered another opportunity to exchange views on the energy co -operation of the two countries, through the planned Gregy cable and the exploitation of developing technology for storage of carbon dioxide.

The cycle ended with the second ASS of Greece – Italy, which was hosted in Rome earlier this week.

Italy is the other country with which Greece reached an EEZ border agreement in 2020, always in accordance with international law and sea law. Sources with the knowledge of the PASS plan have pointed out that the Melon government is a valuable partner in the European Council on a number of issues, such as effective migration management, with an emphasis on protecting external borders and establishing a common European policy to increase the return of those who are not asylum.

The meeting reached 14 agreements, including the Memorandum with the state Italian railways for investment of 360m euros on the part of the Italian side, so that the Hellenic Train will acquire new trainings and train stations. A memorandum was also signed to triple the capacity of the electrical interconnection between Greece and Italy to reach 1,500 MW.

Government sources with the knowledge of the planning of Maximus Mansion and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented that Greece has recovered the diplomatic capital it has lost in the past decade and is a reliable interlocutor of all countries in the region and, without heterogeneous, builds a lot of strategic relations.