Greek PM briefs main opposition chiefs after US trip

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday briefed the heads of Greece's two biggest opposition parties - leftist SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras and center-left Movement for Change's Fofi Gennimata - on the results of his recent visit to the United States and his meeting with President Donald Trump and other US government officials in Washington, where mounting tension with Turkey topped the agenda.

Coming out of the meeting at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Tsipras said he "was more concerned about developments than about the climate of the meeting" between Mitsotakis and Trump, which some saw as being overshadowed by reporters' questions regarding developments in Iran and Iraq and on the American domestic political front.

Tsipras later said that he asked the prime minister to postpone the ratification of a bill foreseeing the renewal of a defense agreement with the...

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