Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Athens to support the Jewish state at the United Nations during a meeting with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Jerusalem on January 31, the Jewish News Syndicate reports.
The call came after Greece abstained from the adoption by the UN General Assembly in December 2022 of a resolution requiring the International Court of Justice to issue an urgent advisory opinion on “prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation by Israel of the Palestinian territory”.
However, Netanyahu thanked Dendias for the close relationship between the two countries, which he says is expressed in many areas, especially energy. In this sense, the Prime Minister instructed the director of the National Security Council, Tzachi Khanegbi, to coordinate a trilateral meeting of the leaders of Israel, Greece and Cyprus on this issue.
The summit will be the ninth of its kind; The then Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem in December 2021.
In addition, Netanyahu and Dendias discussed the need to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and the possibility of extending the “peace cycle” including with the Abraham Accord countries.
In December 2022, officials announced the laying of the foundation stone for the world’s longest and deepest underwater power cable, which crosses the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and connects Asia and Europe. The Eurasian Interconnector, nicknamed the “Energy Highway”, will connect the national electricity grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece.
The project comes in the context of the rapid development of relations between Israel, Cyprus and Greece over the last decade and a half in various fields, including tourism, medicine, cybersecurity and military cooperation.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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