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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-01-11
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[01] Deputy FM discusses know-how transfer
[01] Deputy FM discusses know-how transfer
Deputy Foreign Minister Evripidis Stylianidis and German Deputy
Environment and Nuclear Security Minister Michael Mueller, whose
country currently holds the European Union presidency, discussed on
Thursday the promotion of the transfer of energy know-how from Germany
to Greece and its "re-exportation", with added value, to Arab
countries.
"Greece will assume a key position in the sector of energy in the
eastern Mediterranean and we want to do everything we can to support it
to enable it to play this role correctly," Miller said after the
meeting, stressing that he began his tour of EU countries from Greece.
The German presidency has placed its weight in the energy sector which,
as well as its methods of management, will be, according to the German
official, "the key issue of the coming decades."
Stylianidis said that Germany is ahead on issues concerning alternative
energy sources, reminding that "we already have cooperation with German
industries, such as BMW, with the University of Berlin" and stressed
that "we responded to the German official's proposal on the transfer of
this know-how to the countries of the eastern Mediterranean and of
southeastern Europe."
"We are trying to spread know-how to all the Arab countries we have
visited in the past months and those which we shall be visiting in the
first months of 2007," Stylianidis added.
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