US flags near the Capitol Building in Washington DC ATHENS Jan 8 The United States sent the countries participating in the East Med gas pipeline project an unofficial non paper with a notification of the abandonment of the project, the Greek government should explain this situation in foreign policy, according to the statement of the official representative of the Green Movement party Nikos Karabasis, received by RIA Novosti. non paper turns into dust the foreign and defense policy of our country, «- said Karabasis. He added that the United States in the document declares Washington's refusal to support this project. Specialists initially pointed out the economic inexpediency of the project. However, as Karabasis noted, the United States in an unofficial document, justifying its position, in addition to economic and commercial arguments, indicates that the idea of this pipeline is a source of tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, since Turkey is opposed. The Athens stated that the project will increase the geopolitical influence of Greece. , will create an energy hub, form a historic alliance with Israel and Egypt. 
Zelenskiy urged the US Senate to support measures against Nord Stream 2 «The government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy has proved to be much more vulnerable after the apparent final collapse of the East Med gas pipeline, which is stated in an unofficial document of the State Department for the Secretary General for International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cases of Yannis Smirlis. The same unofficial document was received by the governments of Israel, Cyprus, Egypt and Turkey. in addition to economic and commercial data highlighting the unprofitability of the pipeline, Turkish propaganda and rhetoric is adopted, and reduced to dust the trilateral or multilateral schemes on which recent governments have based their policies without giving them substantial operational and strategic «depths» that would constitute a solid diplomatic and military advantage of our country, «- said the representative of the party. According to him, the geopolitical superiority of Greece as a so-called» energy hub «is crumbling. were actually towers in the sand. And, unfortunately, they did not conduct the slightest negotiations with the United States on the status of their bases on Greek territory, «Karabasis said. 
Gas prices in Europe dropped below $ 1,000 per thousand cubic meters He noted that the agreement has not yet been ratified in parliament. Under the new defense agreement, Greece is providing the Americans with many new bases, including the port of Alexandroupolis, which, according to American officials, will become used to transport military equipment and troops to Eastern Europe and Ukraine. «And, of course, (the government — ed.) did not explain why we intervene in the Ukrainian crisis, cooling our relations with Russia, or why we sent Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia, weakening our defenses when the Americans left there, «the statement said. According to Karabasis, the United States and Germany have» worked «to ensure that Turkey does not incur the slightest sanctions for its» abusive behavior. » heading for the triumph of Erdogan and a heavy diplomatic and defense defeat for Greece. Does the Greek government have an answer? » — asks the politician. The EastMed East Mediterranean gas pipeline is designed to supply gas from the Israeli Leviathan field and the Cypriot Aphrodite to continental Europe. EastMed will connect Greece, Cyprus and Israel with the south of Europe, its length will be 1.9 thousand kilometers, investments in construction are estimated at 6 billion euros. The design capacity is 10 billion cubic meters of gas annually. Subsequently, it is possible to increase it to 20 billion cubic meters per year.
