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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi makes statements during a associated quality briefing with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos MItsotakis and Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades, not pictured, successful Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Athens hosts the 9th trilateral gathering betwixt the 3 countries. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

ATHENS – Greece pledged Tuesday to nexus Egypt to the European Union’s vigor marketplace with an undersea cablegram that would transportation energy crossed the Mediterranean.

“(Egypt’s) nexus to Europe volition beryllium Greece,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said aft talks successful Athens with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. “We are seeking diversification of vigor sources, and Egypt tin besides go a supplier of electricity, which volition beryllium produced chiefly by the sun.”

It comes during a global vigor crunch, which has raised the outgo of earthy gas, lipid and different fuels and led to symptom for businesses and mundane people. Mitsotakis said the task would beryllium a “bridge betwixt Egypt to Europe, allowing (Cairo) to instrumentality connected a cardinal relation successful vigor information astatine a clip of large turbulence successful the vigor market.”

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Egypt past week signed abstracted agreements with Greece and Cyprus to acceptable up undersea interconnectors, though details of the projected ventures person not been worked out.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades besides joined the Athens meeting, marking the ninth circular of talks betwixt the 3 countries’ leaders.

Greece is seeking to grow vigor practice crossed the Mediterranean with Egypt and Israel arsenic it remains astatine likelihood with neighbour Turkey implicit oversea boundaries and seabed mineral rights.

Mitsotakis accused Turkey of continuing a hostile argumentation toward Athens implicit the dispute.

“Turkey’s aspirations astatine the disbursal of its neighbors successful the eastbound Mediterranean evidently correspond a menace to bid successful the wider region,” helium said.

Turkey accuses Greece of making unreasonable demands for maritime exploitation, asserting jurisdiction successful areas surrounding aggregate islands adjacent its coastline. Athens says it wants to resoluteness the quality astatine an planetary court.

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Earlier this year, Greece completed an vigor nexus by undersea cablegram betwixt its confederate Peloponnese portion and the land of Crete.

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