Kimberly Guilfoyle: Meeting with the Prime Minister today – After presenting credentials, her priority is the energy corridor

The caller US Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, near fantabulous impressions arsenic she departed the Presidential Mansion yesterday, aft presenting her credentials to President of the Republic Kostas Tasoulas. According to comments attributed to him afterwards, Guilfoyle was spontaneous, energetic and good briefed — with an highly demanding docket that intelligibly signals her intentions present that she has formally assumed her duties.

“As I stated yesterday, it was a large grant to contiguous my credentials to President Konstantinos Tasoulas. It is simply a profound grant to service arsenic Ambassador of the United States to the Hellenic Republic and to beryllium the archetypal pistillate to service arsenic US Ambassador to Greece,” Guilfoyle said. “I look guardant to moving with our Greek allies to beforehand peace, prosperity, and information successful the Eastern Mediterranean, and I volition beryllium a arrogant typical of President Trump, a steadfast defender of US interests and a steadfast person of Greece and the Greek people,” she concluded — arsenic the countdown present begins for the 6th Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC), jointly organized by the US Department of Energy, the Greek Ministry of Environment & Energy and the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center time and the time after, astatine the Zappeion.

The beingness astatine this year’s lawsuit of the US Secretaries of Energy and Interior, Chris Wright and Doug Burgum, places Greece squarely wrong the halfway of the “LNG vigor corridor” — which Guilfoyle had already focused connected extensively during her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, mounting a precise precocious barroom for her caller post. Guilfoyle volition successful information beryllium astatine the Maximos Mansion doubly contiguous — opening with her greeting gathering with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and returning successful the day accompanying Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

A firm offensive

Meanwhile, the information successful P-TEC of the Energy Ministers of Bulgaria (Zhecho Stankov), Estonia (Andres Sutt), Lithuania (Žygimantas Vaičiūnas) and Ukraine (Roman Andarak), arsenic good arsenic the Croatian Finance Minister Ante Šušnjar, moves the “Vertical Corridor” mentioned by Guilfoyle successful her Senate proceeding person to execution. The imaginable of Greece emerging successful signifier arsenic an vigor hub for some Europe and America has already generated precocious expectations connected some sides of the Atlantic — with much than 80 US-side concern executives participating successful the ngo to be tomorrow’s bilateral concern forum astatine the Zappeion.

Trump agenda

Additionally, Guilfoyle is expected to present Secretary Burgum astatine tomorrow’s lawsuit — delivering her archetypal nationalist remarks connected the US-Greece narration and connected the Trump administration’s vigor argumentation successful the Southeastern Mediterranean. For this reason, the remarks from US officials time are drafting important involvement regarding vigor strategy for the portion — and surely volition not spell unnoticed by neighboring Turkey.

It is noted that the 6th ministerial of the flagship P-TEC level volition absorption connected European vigor security, affordability and reliability, arsenic good arsenic discussions centered connected artificial intelligence, the Vertical Corridor, information (including cybersecurity), vigor infrastructure and investment. Particular accent volition beryllium placed connected LNG’s relation successful supporting European competitiveness and growth, and strategies for improving connectivity and web information — astatine a clip erstwhile ending dependence connected Russian fossil fuels is becoming adjacent much urgent.