“The ties between our two countries are strong and are deepening with each passing day,” US Vice President Kamala Harris wrote on Twitter after the historic speech of the Greek Prime Minister in Congress.
Kamala Harris referred to the joint meeting of the Congress with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in which she chaired, posting a photo together.
Today, I presided over a joint meeting of Congress with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece. The ties between our two countries are strong and growing deeper every day. pic.twitter.com/7vLDo7GANm
– Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) May 18, 2022
The vote of confidence in Kyriakos Mitsotakis
A deep political speech, which emotionally and politically touched the majority of those present at the meeting, but also communicated historical and political facts in a portion of Americans, who were probably unaware of the burning issueswhich occupy our country and the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Government sources said that after Mr. Mitsotakis’s speech, senators commented that was one of the best speeches addressed to Congress by foreign leaders.
It is no coincidence that many times the President of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosia politician with a long political career, during the appointment of the Greek Prime Minister, gave the “signal” to the other senators to applaud or even to rise, presided over by herself, from the presidential seat together with the Vice President of the USA, Kamala Harris. Thus giving their own “consent” and “vote of confidence»In the Greek argument developed by the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The evaluation of the visit
Sources of the Greek government after the end and the speech of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Capitol, spoke about a absolutely successful visit which shows that the Greece returned dynamically to the global and regional becoming, as a leading power in the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. A country a pole of stability, law, security and development.
After all, in all his contacts, publicly or privately, the Greek Prime Minister did not fail to emphasize the role that the country has played over time in the “neighborhood” of the Eastern Mediterranean, especially under the current deplorable conditions brought by the war in Ukraine and its consequences. «A country that holds the keys to peace and energy stability in the wider regionObserved the same government sources.
An attitude and view of things that finds the US an ally and companion, as Nancy Pelosi characteristically stated “there is a poem that says that “each of us is the harvest of the other. In America we reap the benefits of democracy born in Greece, the lessons, the ancient lessons of democracy. And then, in Greece, they reap the benefits of our democracy. So, in a way, we are all each other’s harvest. That is why our democracies have a very close relationshipHe stressed to underline the relations between the two countries.
The excellent Greek-American relations were also underlined by the well-known friend of Greece, American Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendezwho met with the Greek Prime Minister after his speech at the Capitol and in a post that followed wrote: “The US-Greece partnership and friendship, rooted in common values, has never been stronger. “The commitment to democracy and security and economic prosperity in the Eastern Mediterranean is ironic.” concluded Mr. Menendez.
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