Credit: US NavyThe US on Tuesday presented its official proposal for the sale of frigates to Greece.The American proposal was submitted to the Greek National Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos by the US Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt. The United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and France – Greece’s NATO allies – have already made offers, which are…
US Joins Four Other Allies Offering Frigate Sale to Greece
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The US through its Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, presented on Tuesday to the Greek National Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos with the American proposal for the procurement of frigates for the Hellenic Navy.
The United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and France – Greece’s NATO allies – have already made offers, which are currently examined by officers of the Hellenic General Defence Staff.
” width=”1080″>In his tweet, Pyatt called the proposal “a government-to-government agreement with long-term impact: domestic production, boosting the Greek shipbuilding industry, creating new jobs & the region’s most advanced Naval capability.”
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The 6th edition of the Delphi Economic Forum (DEF) kicked off on Monday at the Zappeion Megaron in Athens.
“Greece is gradually and carefully returning to normality, along with the rapid expansion of [its] vaccination programme,” the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou said in her address opening the annual conference.
She pointed out that this year’s forum was dedicated to the bicentennial anniversary since the 1821 Greek Revolution, which led to the foundation of the modern Greek state, but was not being held in its “natural surroundings” in Delphi but in a hybrid fashion, due to the pandemic.