ND leader welcomes bipartisan US bill on EastMed

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed on Monday a bipartisan bill introduced by US Senators Robert Menendez and Marco Rubio that would alter US strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean, during a meeting with Menendez in Athens.

"Senator Menendez has always been a close ally of our country and I welcome publically the bipartisan legislative initiative to create a zone for energy security and geopolitical cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean," he said after a meeting with the Democratic Senator.
"We are very pleased ... that this initiative recognizes the importance of US relations with Greece, Cyprus and Israel. It is a policy that was initiated by past New Democracy administrations and is adopted by the current government."
Mitsotakis said he hopes for a deepening of US-Greek relations particularly in attracting investment.
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