PRESIDENT: How are you? Are you well?
E. VENIZELOS: I’m trying.
PRESIDENT: I followed you in Egypt and was very pleased we got some movement on an issue.
E. VENIZELOS: It really did go very well. And we are trying in general to defend and upgrade the country’s position in a very tumultuous and dangerous region. We did very well in Egypt. This is a mutually accepted and very positive framework for both countries – not just for Greece, but for Egypt, as well – and, I would say, for the Eastern Mediterranean more generally.
In Syria, too, we are trying to help towards a definitive, comprehensive political solution, participating in the main current, of course, of the European Union, because we must have allies in order to achieve major goals.
PRESIDENT: It seems that in the end …
E. VENIZELOS: A political solution will prevail. Let’s hope so. But a lot of factors have to come together for this to work out.
PRESIDENT: Correct.
September 11, 2013