Friday, July 23, 2010
During his official visit in Israel, Prime Minister George Papandreou held talks and a joint press conference with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday in Tel Aviv.
Papandreou thanked Netanyahu for his willingness to support the Greek government in emerging from the economic crisis and referred to a further development of cooperation in tourism, agriculture, trade, and technology.
In turn, the Israeli premier stressed the many things that the two countries shared in common, which he said arose from a shared set of values and principles. Papandreou also welcomed recent steps taken by Israel to ease the Gaza blockade and said that "a feasible peace, a just peace, on the basis of two states for two people is possible."
The Greek premier also held talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah and reiterated his position in favour of the peace process and the start of a substantial dialogue.
