The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign and European Affairs, Mr. Harris Georgiades, participated as a speaker in a debate on the "3+1" Interparliamentary Dialogue in the framework of the 8th Delphi Economic Forum. The debate was also attended by the member of the Greek delegation to the "3+1" Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue Mr. Dimitris Kairidis and the US Ambassador to Greece Mr. George Tsunis, while the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate Mr. Robert Menendez and Councilwoman Dora Bakoyannis, head of the delegations of the US Congress and the House of Representatives to the Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue, delivered a video message.
Georgiades stressed that the Republic of Cyprus, having a clear Western orientation, attaches great importance to the development and further deepening and broadening of cooperation relations with its neighbouring countries.
Georgiades underlined that the Republic of Cyprus, having a clear Western orientation, attaches great importance to the development and further deepening and broadening of cooperation relations with its neighbouring countries. Georgiades stressed in particular the importance of US involvement in the region and, consequently, the importance of developing the expanded trilateral cooperation mechanism between Cyprus, Greece, Israel and the US ("3+1"), as a forum for dialogue and cooperation on energy and security, but also for promoting the application of the principles of international law and international norms. Mr Georgiades also stressed that the countries of the region should place particular emphasis on regional cooperation in the energy sector, noting the possibility of expanding it to the countries of the wider region. Georgiades stressed that regional cooperation is open to all countries willing to participate and underlined that Turkey's potential participation in various forms of regional cooperation, such as the EastMed Gas Forum, on the basis of common principles and rules and subject to the respect of the participating countries, including the Republic of Cyprus, would contribute to ensuring peace and stability in the region.
Mr Georgiades also participated in a teleconference of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum on the Abraham Accords, organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on energy security in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region and beyond.
Georgiades welcomed the cooperation that is developing between the countries of the Abraham Agreements and its contribution to ensuring conditions of peace and prosperity in the region. He also stressed the importance of regional cooperation in the energy sector as a vector of peace and prosperity, which offers an important prospect of stability for the entire region. Georgiades highlighted the importance that the Republic of Cyprus attaches to cooperation in general and to regional energy projects in particular and stressed that decisions on the development of energy projects in the region should include the political and security dimension and not only narrow economic calculations.
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