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Geoffrey Pyatt is one of the longest serving US ambassadors to Athens – his fifth anniversary is on 19 May – and his tenure has coincided with some of the more difficult moments in recent history from the country’s economic precariousness to Greek-Turkish tensions last summer that brought the two countries to the brink of a military clash at sea. In a full-length interview with Marianna Kakaounakis at the annual Delphi Forum, Pyatt stressed the Biden administration’s intention to deepen bilateral strategic ties and that a visit by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Washington is on the cards, ...

Kathimerini May 10, 2021 Ms. Kakaounaki:  Ambassador Pyatt, welcome to your fifth Delphi Economic Forum, although unfortunately we’re not in Delphi.  You’ve said numerous times that Greece has changed a lot since you first arrived.  Did you expect this?  And what has surprised you the moist? Ambassador Pyatt:  I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t an optimist.  And I did something very interesting today.  Before we had this conversation I went back and watched my conversation with Alexis Papahelas in 2017.  My first Delphi.  He asked me a similar question.  And one of the p...

Lockheed Martin delivers upgraded S-70B helicopter to Hellenic Navy 06 May 2021 (Last Updated May 7th, 2021 16:15) Lockheed Martin Rotary, Mission Systems has handed over an upgraded S-70B helicopter, code named as Aegean Hawk in Greek, to the Hellenic Navy. Share Article The helicopter is the first of 11 Aegean Hawks operated by the Hellenic Navy. Aeroservices, a certified repair company for Sikorsky helicopters, has carried out repair, inspection, maintenance and upgrade work on the helicopter. At the helicopter delivery ceremony, US Ambassado...

Greece receives first upgraded S-70 Helicopter from US Search for: On Thursday, Greece’s Navy marked the delivery of the first maintained S-70 helicopter from US manufacturer Lockheed Martin Rotary, Mission Systems and Aeroservices. The inclusion of the 11 Aegean Hawk S-70 helicopters of the Navy in the program was made possible under the intergovernmental agreement between Greece and the US. The deal allowed Greek aeronautics and aircraft maintenance company Aeroservices to participate in the program as the only certified repair company for this type of Sikorsky helicopters in Europe. Μ�...

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 tr...