Greece, Malta, Italy maritime cooperation
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Malta's Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Joe Mizzi hosted Marios Demetriades, Minister for Communications and Works of Cyprus and Shipping minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, for the third tripartite meeting with the scope of consolidating a common position on maritime affairs, both at international and regional level.
Maritime issues are of paramount importance to the three countries, being the three main maritime nations in the European Union. Today's meeting follows two other similar ones held in Greece and Cyprus respectively.
The Ministers discussed contemporary maritime issues, such as environment protection and green house emissions, the social dimension of shipping, and a debate on ways to further consolidate the coordination between Malta, Cyprus and Greece.
The Malta minister Mizzi, said that the three countries have significant maritime interests in the European Union and Malta considers that it is of utmost importance for the three countries to continue strengthening their cooperation in order to ensure that their interests are adequately represented and taken into account when policy and legislation are being formulated at both EU and international level.
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