US Vice President Joe Biden will be in Athens on Dec. 5, during a tour of the region that also encompasses Ankara on Dec. 2 and Istanbul, where he will attend an international conference on entrepreneurship, before arriving in Greece.
Greek-American relations, issues of Greek interest such as the Cyprus problem, the fYRoM ‘name issue’, religious freedom and the Ecumenical Patriarchate will be on the agenda of Biden’s discussions in Athens, as well as the dire economic crisis and problems in the wider region.
Biden will be received by President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias, while he will also meet separately with Premier Lucas Papademos, PASOK leader and former prime minister George Papandreou, and New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras.
Biden’s national security advisor Tony Blinken spoke with the press during a teleconference on Monday night about Biden’s visit.
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