Arutz Sheva: Biden: Possible 'Win-Win' Mediterranean Gas Pipeline to EU

Gas pipeline from Israeli-Cypriot fields could liberate Turkey and Greece from Russia’s use of energy as a weapon, says VP.

US Vice President Biden’s October 2, 2014 Harvard Kennedy School comments on Syria garnered most of the media attention, but he also made an important statement saying there is a “new opportunity” for a “win-win” breakthrough involving Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel, and the construction of a gas “pipeline” from the Levant Basin gas fields to Greece and Europe.

Biden was answering a question posed by a Cyprus-born Harvard student concerning America’s evaluation of Turkey’s role in developing a de facto “non-zero-sum-game” alliance between Egypt, Israel, Cyprus and Greece concerning the “eastern Mediterranean energy map.”

Biden first stated that with respect to the Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus, “the world is changing.” He related that he has been “deeply involved,” and “passionately engaged” in the Cyprus issue since the mid-1970s, and that his friends, quite seriously, call him, “Joe Bidenapolis” because of his attachment to the Greek community in his home state of Delaware.
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