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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-11-12
CONTENTS
[01] Athens details foreign policy priorities
[02] Gov't on pipeline project
[01] Athens details foreign policy priorities
VIENNA (ANA-MPA) -- Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas
outlined the new Greek government's foreign policy priorities in an
interview published in a Thursday edition of a Vienna daily, including
detailed responses on questions dealing with the pesky fYRoM "name
issue", the Greek-Turkish relations and the increasingly menacing
pan-European specter of illegal migration.
Droutsas reiterated that Greece seeks to actively and forcefully
promote the European integration (i.e. EU accession) of western Balkans
states by the year 2014.
[02] Gov't on pipeline project
The Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project is a significant
project with geopolitical, economic and energy importance, Deputy FM
Spyros Kouvelis said on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Black Sea Business Forum in
Thessaloniki, the minister said Greece and Bulgaria shared the same
views on the project and underlined the strong interest of both
countries to proceed with the plan.
"In consultations with the Environment ministry we need to ensure all
environmental terms and to begin building a project well designed to
the benefit of the energy industry, citizens and Greece in general,"
Kouvelis said.
He said the Black Sea region was the natural "backyard" of Greece and
that the country needed to boost cooperation in business activities
with neighbouring countries and cooperation for sustainable and green
development in the region.
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