Greek Prime Minister meets with US President in New York

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Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accompanied by his wife Mareva Grabovski-Mitsotakis attended a reception hosted by US President Joe Biden on Thursday evening.

The dinner was held in honour of the leader’s participation in the high-level week of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

According to Euronews, Mitsotakis had a cordial conversation with the US president, discussing, amongst other things, the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House in May.

Earlier in the day, Mitsotakis, who is at the tail end of his week-long trip to New York, visited the 9/11 memorial and rebuilt St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.

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