Port of Alexandroupoli
Delivered (podium)
Kalimera sas. I want to start by thanking my friend, Defense Minister Panagiotopoulos, for coming up to Alexandroupoli today for this event. But also to reflect, as we were discussing on the aircraft flying up this morning, on the spectacular progress that we have achieved in our defense relationship since the Minister and I first came to Alexandroupoli together in September of 2019, around the removal of the sunken dredger Olga. I think we should all be enormously proud of what we have accomplished together here in Alexandroupoli and the transformative strategic impact of the work that we’ve done together. So thank you, Minister, for just being a fantastic partner and ally in this effort.
Ambassador Pyatt: Alexandroupolis has become strategically important
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U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Friday underscored the United States’ strategic commitment to northern Greece in statements to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency while visiting the port of Alexandroupolis for the final phase of the inter-allied military exercise Defender-Europe 2021.
VIPs visited Alexandroupolis on Friday for the start of the port authority’s support of the exercise and the hosting of U.S. forces at the port.
Asked by
AMNA about the significance of the use of the Alexandroupolis port by US forces in actions such as that on Friday, as well as his own frequent visits to the region, for bilateral Greek-U.S. relations, Pyatt said that “this is a proof of our strategic commitment to northern Greece and of Alexandroupolis’ role as a military logistics hub, an energy hub, a regional access hub and a transport hub.”
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