Mitsotakis in New York – opportunities, substance, results

This week will see the first appearance of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the United Nations General Assembly. He will make the customary speech before the plenary and be received by the UN secretary-general. However, the substance will be in the meetings that are to take place on the sidelines of the proceedings.
Those of us who have attended virtually all of the UN General Assembly meetings over the past quarter of a century have restrained expectations.
We have heard a lot about meetings with leaders creating new potential in bilateral ties, about Greece's significant initiatives in the context of multilateral groups or organizations, about meetings with major entrepreneurs who have been convinced of Greece's potential and have hastened to invest, and about the significance of the Greek diaspora, particularly in America.
Usually, however, the results - and...

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