![With the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias.](http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big/Al7EgjvsHJqP7VAcA4Ub3irRPF7zAVqg.jpeg)
Earlier on, the President of Greece welcomed the signing of the Russian-Greek-Bulgarian intergovernmental agreement on constructing the Burgas – Alexandroupolis oil pipeline.
Karolos Papoulias, former Greek Foreign Minister, had been at the forefront of the movement to construct the trans-Balkan oil pipeline.