Greek Prime Minister calls for new energy interconnection with Egypt at COP27 summit

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Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, called for a new energy interconnection with Egypt using Renewable Energy Sources (RES) during a conference with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on the sidelines of the COP27 climate change summit.

The conference was titled ‘Coordinating Climate Change Actions in the Eastern Mediterranean & Middle East’ and was also attended by the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades.

Mitsotakis underlined during the conference the importance of regional cooperation and coordination against climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on electricity interconnections and management of natural disasters.

“It is necessary to further cooperate as regards energy interconnection. It is an issue of high importance for us,” the Greek Prime Minister said.

“Of course, we are examining with President El-Sisi the possibility of developing a new, significant interconnection between Egypt and Greece in order to be able to transfer cheap energy from renewable energy sources, which will be produced in this part of the world, not only to Greece but also to other European markets that seek cheaper energy generated from RES.”

After this conference, Mitsotakis also met with the US Special Presidential Envoy on Climate, John Kerry.

According to Mitsotakis on Twitter, the leaders discussed Greece-US cooperation in dealing with climate change, as well as the achievement of the goal of net zero emissions by 2050.

“I also had the opportunity to inform him about Greece’s initiatives regarding the diversification of energy sources, but also about the transformation of our country into an energy transfer hub, connecting Africa and the eastern Mediterranean with eastern Europe,” Mitsotakis said.

Source: AMNA.

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