Mitsotakis Seeks to “Turn the Page” on Foreign Policy Fiasco: From New York to Copenhagen

After a dense five-day docket of meetings successful New York, Kyriakos Mitsotakis returned to Athens and volition convene the Cabinet connected Tuesday, earlier departing again for Copenhagen.

Although this travel had been planned successful advance, the Prime Minister’s bureau is present seeking to usage contacts successful Copenhagen to cover up the New York fiasco, wherever Mitsotakis had very fewer high-level meetings, suffered a stinging rebuke from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and failed to amended relations with Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs is keeping a debased illustration regarding the postponed U.S. meeting, emphasizing that determination volition beryllium a new accidental for the 2 leaders to meet, adjacent successful Copenhagen, arsenic Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis stated.

The Copenhagen trip:

The Prime Minister volition enactment successful the Informal EU Summit (October 1) and the 6th European Political Community Summit (October 2), a forum bringing unneurotic each European countries, pursuing Emmanuel Macron’s inaugural successful 2022.

Erdoğan is besides invited to Copenhagen, though his attendance is uncertain, making it improbable that a nonstop gathering with Mitsotakis tin beryllium scheduled.

Foreign argumentation successful Parliament:

Next week, a peculiar league volition beryllium held successful Parliament, wherever Mitsotakis aims to highlight arms procurement programs and the revival of the home defence industry, downplaying caller failures specified as:

• the New York fiasco
• complications astatine the Monastery of Sinai

At the aforesaid time, helium volition contiguous the gathering with Libya’s Islamist president arsenic a occurrence and emphasize active overseas argumentation and Greece’s geoeconomic footprint, focusing on:

• maritime parks
• the commencement of hydrocarbon exploration wrong the EEZ with Egypt
• partnerships with large American companies, which are utilized arsenic some a shield against Turkey and a level to fortify U.S. interests.