JERUSALEM, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Israel, Greece and Cyprus will continue to cooperate on natural gas projects, including exporting gas to Europe, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Tuesday.

Lapid made the remarks after holding a trilateral meeting in the Greek capital Athens with Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Cyprus' Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, Lapid's office said in a statement.

The Israeli top diplomat said the war in Ukraine is changing the structure of the European and Middle Eastern energy markets. "There are risks here, but there are also opportunities which we must examine together," he was quoted as saying.

Israel, Greece and Cyprus are "examining additional economic cooperation, with an emphasis on the energy market," Lapid said.

The three states are also looking at ways to cooperate in a series of fields, first and foremost in regional security, to fight "terrorism in the region," he said.

In 2020, Israel, Greece and Cyprus agreed to build the 1,900-km-long Eastern Mediterranean pipeline called EastMed that would export natural gas from the Levantine Basin to Europe to reduce Europe's dependency on Russian energy supplies. But the United States withdrew its support for the project in January 2022, citing that it is not seen as economically viable or environmentally friendly. Enditem

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