Diplomacy · Athens and Karpathos
Androulakis meets Gerapetritis over Greece-Cyprus cable as French ship surveys near Karpathos
PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis met Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on 14 November as part of party-leader briefings on foreign policy. The talks centred on the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection and tension with Turkey over a French research vessel working south of Karpathos.
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Gerapetritis is briefing party leaders on foreign policy, and his meeting with Nikos Androulakis of PASOK took place on 14 November before further meetings that day.
The French research vessel Abeille Marengo is conducting bathymetric work south of Karpathos, with the Greek frigate Limnos monitoring it closely and a Turkish frigate further away.
Nikos Androulakis, the leader of PASOK, was meeting Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on 14 November in the course of briefings that the foreign minister is giving party leaders on developments in foreign policy. The agenda centred on the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection and on the tension with Turkey that has followed the start of work by the French research vessel Abeille Marengo.
The French ship is carrying out bathymetric surveys south of Karpathos, following the coordinates Greece announced. The Greek frigate Limnos is monitoring the work from close range, while a Turkish frigate remains at a greater distance.
Speaking earlier at an international strategic forum in Iraqi Kurdistan, Gerapetritis had stressed the European importance of the link.
“We have made clear that this project has European significance and that we will not tolerate any kind of interference in it.”
After Androulakis, Gerapetritis was scheduled to meet the KKE general secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas at 11:00 and Zoe Konstantopoulou of Plefsi Eleftherias at 12:00. The briefings are expected to conclude by 18:00.
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- Nikos Androulakis
- Leader of PASOK, met Foreign Minister Gerapetritis in the party-leader briefings
- Giorgos Gerapetritis
- Greek Foreign Minister briefing party leaders on the Greece-Cyprus interconnection
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