Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hasn’t asked for financial aid from Russia during talks in Moscow, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Putin said at a joint news conference with Tsipras that they had only discussed various economic cooperation projects, including new projects in the energy sector such as extending the planned Turkish Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey into the EU via Greece.
“Under these plans, we could provide loans for certain projects,” he said, adding that it was not a question of aid.
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Source: Novinite
