By Miltos Sakellaris
The Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakishas been in the United States since Monday, where he met yesterday with the president Joe Biden. This is a symbolic visit, during which the Greek government has several goals and a large agenda of issues to be discussed. The Greek Prime Minister is expected to address Congress today. But what does Mr. Mitsotakis’s visit to one of Greece’s most powerful allies signify? How it can affect the course of relations between the two countries and who they are its main objectives regarding Turkey; Skai.gr .gr contacted the professor of International Relations and member of parliament for ND, Dimitris Kairidiswho pointed out that Greek-American relations are “strategic and unique”.
«The visit of the Greek Prime Minister to Washington and the response of the Americans – as it is marked first by the fact that the White House opened for a reception in honor of Greece and the Greek Prime Minister for the first time since the pandemic and second, even more important, that a Greek Prime Minister will speak for the first time at a joint meeting of the two legislatures of the Congress; proves the change of model and the change of “track” in the Greek-American relations, which pass to another phase“, He stressed.
«It is another relationship that is truly strategic and unique. With the appropriate “narrative” based on the community of interests and principles of both sides, Greece, through Congress, can and has direct presence in US government initiatives in the region, as never before, in a way that so far only Israel had succeeded. Beyond government and bureaucracy, Congress has claimed and succeeded, often, in having the final say in what is happening in the wider Eastern Mediterranean. “Relations between the two governments are excellent, but the interest of the Congress gives a strategic depth, a stability in the orientation, for the benefit of both sides, but also of peace in our always sensitive region.”said Mr. Kairidis.
According to him, this special relationship with Congress must be properly assessed and analyzed because creates new enhanced opportunities for Greek foreign policy and obviously about the way the US is governed in the region and in the wider network of Greek-Turkish relations. «So in this trip, apart from the issues of purely Greek interest, the commitment of the Congress will be reaffirmed. to stop the Turkish revisionism and the continuous differentiation of Turkey from the Western alliance and its goals, as the US embargo on F16 and even more so on F35“, Said characteristically the professor of International Relations and MP of ND.
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