Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis is on a two-day official visit (July 8-9) to Washington, during which he is expected to have a series of meetings with his U.S. counterparts on bilateral economic and trade cooperation issues.

He is to meet also with the representatives of the Greek-American community while yesterday he gave a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, on "Greening the Mediterranean: Greek foreign policy against the backdrop of the Financial Crisis."