SEEF 2021: Greece’s cooperation with Balkan neighbors key to its success in providing alternatives to Russian gas monopoly, say five US ambassadors

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Greece’s cooperation with its neighbors in the Balkans is the key to its success in providing alternatives to the traditional Russian gas monopoly, taking advantage of the many opportunities available by the energy transition, was the joint assessment of five US Ambassadors at the 5th Southeast Europe Energy Forum held in Thessaloniki on Friday.

This was reportedly agreed upon by the US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, to Albania Yuri Kim, to North Macedonia Kate Mary Byrnes, to Bulgaria Herro Mustafa and to Serbia Anthony F. Godfrey.

The need for diversification of energy sources is not “a national agenda but an agenda of the broader region”, said the American ambassador, emphasizing Greece’s crucial role in developing a network of relations with its neighbors to ensure an energy future for this entire region, free of monopolies. Pyatt assured of US’s support in this direction.

The Southeast Europe Energy Forum is organized by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and the Hellenic Association for Energy Economics, in cooperation with the US Embassy in Greece and the strategic support of the Atlantic Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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