US secretary of state visits Athens

The deepening of strategic cooperation between Greece and the United States and the mutually beneficial aligning of interests in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean are at the heart of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Athens.

Given the confusing political climate in Washington lately, Pompeo has been the main - if not the only - steady pillar of foreign policy in the US capital, though the possibility of him leaving the State Department to seek election to the Senate inevitably gives rise to uncertainty.
In any case, the visit by the head of American diplomacy comes amid a very positive climate in relations between the two countries with excellent prospects. The completion of the bilateral defense agreement confirms that Greece has made a clear choice at a cross-party level - the agreement was prepared under the previous SYRIZA administration -...

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