Mitsotakis after meeting with El-Sisi: “Greece and Egypt are factors of stability in our region”

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is visiting Egypt on Thursday, called his visit and meeting with Egyptian President El-Sisi “brief but productive.”

“As you already know I have an excellent personal relation with President El-Sisi and I am here to reaffirm the strategic depth of relations between Greece and Egypt and to thank Egypt for their actions to support my country by sending military helicopters to assist in the battle with the wildfires,” Mitsotakis stated after the meeting and his visit to the monument of the fallen Greeks in El Alamein.

In statements to the press, Mitsotakis said, “We had the opportunity to discuss all the issues of our cooperation, to make an overall assessment of the geopolitical condition in the eastern Mediterranean. To reaffirm that Greece and Egypt are factors of stability in our wider geopolitical region.

“But also to discuss new prospects of cooperation with emphasis on issues of energy that now the interconnection between Greece and Egypt via a cable of electric energy is a project that appears to have the support of the European Union.

“But also to reaffirm our volition to cooperate also on matters that have to do with human resources. As you already know, there is currently a shortage in human resources in Greece, whether we speak of the primary sector or construction and we have launched a plan for the speedy implementation of the initial idea regarding cooperation in this sector.

“As I have said several times, we want to encourage legal migration but we will be very strict with illegal migration. Egypt can offer assistance to Greece to cover our needs in human resources.