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The US Ambassador to our country J. Payat "buried" the project that was a constant Greek strategic goal
11-09-2021 • 11: 30am
"Slap" from the US Ambassador to our country Jeffrey Payat , who "buried" the East Med pipeline , in which our country has invested so much in order to strategically ensure both the adequacy of natural gas and the security of the region of the southeast Mediterranean , through which he will pass.
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Mr Payat's specific position took place during a debate organized by the Council on Foreign Relations last week.
After Mr. Payat first stressed that the East Med pipeline - if one assumes that it will be built, as he stressed - will be the most expensive and deepest gas pipeline in the history of the world, he clarified the US intentions, saying that it will be the markets those who will judge whether he will eventually be created. He even added that the LNG, which will be transported by the pipeline, will have a relatively small role only in the era of the "energy transition" that we are going through and is not the long-term answer to the question of the planet's energy.
In an obvious attempt to "reduce" the sound of the "slap" he threw in relation to a constant Greek strategic pursuit, he tried to convince that its construction is not a political or diplomatic issue, but clearly economic, and clarified that the markets "say" that it is unlikely that the construction of the East Med will be pursued. "The United States was clear," he continued, "that we will support what the markets support ."
Elsewhere , Mr. Payat informed us that the United States has supported Greece's efforts to build a cooperative model with the countries of the region on energy issues.
It is recalled that the cancellation of East Med was a constant Turkish pursuit. "No plan in the eastern Mediterranean can go ahead without Turkey, " was the constant refrain of Turkish officials whenever the issue arose. Certainty that seems to be justified, since a project which, among other things, would make Greece and Cyprus energy centers, upgrading the two countries at a geopolitical level, goes, at least according to Mr. Payat, for a "tassel"… because of the markets!
However, this selective invocation of the markets, in order to justify choices that are clearly made with other criteria, is something we have learned for good in Greece.
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11-09-2021 • 11: 30am
"Slap" from the US Ambassador to our country Jeffrey Payat , who "buried" the East Med pipeline , in which our country has invested so much in order to strategically ensure both the adequacy of natural gas and the security of the region of the southeast Mediterranean , through which he will pass.
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Mr Payat's specific position took place during a debate organized by the Council on Foreign Relations last week.
After Mr. Payat first stressed that the East Med pipeline - if one assumes that it will be built, as he stressed - will be the most expensive and deepest gas pipeline in the history of the world, he clarified the US intentions, saying that it will be the markets those who will judge whether he will eventually be created. He even added that the LNG, which will be transported by the pipeline, will have a relatively small role only in the era of the "energy transition" that we are going through and is not the long-term answer to the question of the planet's energy.
In an obvious attempt to "reduce" the sound of the "slap" he threw in relation to a constant Greek strategic pursuit, he tried to convince that its construction is not a political or diplomatic issue, but clearly economic, and clarified that the markets "say" that it is unlikely that the construction of the East Med will be pursued. "The United States was clear," he continued, "that we will support what the markets support ."
Elsewhere , Mr. Payat informed us that the United States has supported Greece's efforts to build a cooperative model with the countries of the region on energy issues.
It is recalled that the cancellation of East Med was a constant Turkish pursuit. "No plan in the eastern Mediterranean can go ahead without Turkey, " was the constant refrain of Turkish officials whenever the issue arose. Certainty that seems to be justified, since a project which, among other things, would make Greece and Cyprus energy centers, upgrading the two countries at a geopolitical level, goes, at least according to Mr. Payat, for a "tassel"… because of the markets!
However, this selective invocation of the markets, in order to justify choices that are clearly made with other criteria, is something we have learned for good in Greece.
Αμερικάνικο «χαστούκι» για τον αγωγό East Med!
«Χαστούκι» από τον πρέσβη των ΗΠΑ στη χώρα μας Τζέφρι Πάιατ, που «έθαψε» τον αγωγό East Med, στον οποίο τόσο πολλά έχει επενδύσει η χώρα μας προκειμένου να
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