Deputy US Special Climate Envoy: We support Greece’s role in diversifying energy sources with its Balkan neighbors

Biniaz visited Greece a week ago for preparations of the Conference (April 15-17), accompanied by the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for the Ocean Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, who is also Our Ocean Conference coordinator in Greece and member of the parliament's Environmental Committee. They met with the Ministers of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni, Environment & Energy Theodoros Skylakakis, and Deputy Digital Governance Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis. 

In her responses, the special envoy also underlined the importance of the US-Greece memorandum understanding to improve energy security and cooperation in the Western Balkans, a partnership that will integrate this region's electricity markets to create a more connected and secure region and provide alternatives to Russia’s traditional gas monopoly.