Defence Min Dendias to visit London

National Defence Minister Nikos Dendias is to travel to London on Thursday, February 8, where he is to have meetings with British officials, as well as with academics and defence technology experts, among others, in view of the creation of an innovation ecosystem in the Greek Armed Forces.

On Thursday evening, he will attend an event on the Greek Language, organised by the Greek Embassy in the United Kingdom at the embassy residence, with the author Victoria Hislop as the speaker.

On Friday, the Defence Minister will meet with the general director of the Imperial War Museums, Caro Howell, with whom he will discuss the prospect of cooperation with the war museums in Greece and the provision of expertise, especially in view of the planned changes to the War Museum of Athens and the functional upgrading of its facilities.

On February 12, Dendias will have a meeting, at the ambassador's residence in London, with the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, who is responsible, among other things, for the Operational Policy of the country's Armed Forces. Among the topics to be discussed are cooperation in technology and research, as well as the "Prosperity Guardian" operation in the Red Sea.