ערוץ 7: Cyprus President
Nicos Anastasiades hosted a three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and his Greek counterpart
Alexis Tsipras focused on plans to build a gas pipeline to Europe. While the alliance has emerged around gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, water resources and tourism were also high on the agenda of the talks, said Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides. The leaders also discussed plans for an underwater cable to connect the electricity grids of the three countries, the prime minister told a news conference after their meetings. Netanyahu said the three countries were to form a trilateral committee to study plans to build a pipeline between Israel and Cyprus and on to Greece for gas exports to Europe. Netanyahu said they also discussed cooperation in water management, tourism, the hi-tech sector and firefighting as well as search-and-rescue missions in the eastern Mediterranean. With Israel finding large reserves of gas close to where Cyprus is drilling, the two countries are looking to cooperate on energy issues such as exporting Israeli gas.