Mitsotakis in the US: from Silicon Valley to the UN

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is undertaking a trip to the United States that runs from Tuesday, September 21 to Friday, September 25, 2026, according to reports from Oikonomikos Tachidromos and as To Paron states. The program, as presented by both reports, includes two distinct components: first San Francisco, with emphasis on technology and investment, and then New York, where the Prime Minister will participate in the 81st High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly. It is a multi-day program with a dense agenda of meetings and events in both cities.

In the San Francisco component, according to reports, Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Nvidia and Tesla on Monday, September 21, 2026, while that evening, at 18:30, he attended an Endeavor Greece event titled “The Future of AI Elsewhere”. The following day, Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the program included a meeting with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie at 08:30, and a speech at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University at 12:00, in the presence of former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as To Paron and Oikonomikos Tachidromos report.

The second component of the trip shifts to New York, where from Wednesday, September 23 to Friday, September 25, 2026, the Prime Minister will attend the 81st High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, according to the report. On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, his participation is planned in the launch of the OceanEye initiative, coordinated by Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Carney, a speech to diaspora organizations and a meeting with American Jewish organizations. On Thursday, September 24, 2026, a meeting is expected with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in the morning and a speech to the General Assembly in the afternoon, while on Friday, September 25, 2026, the Prime Minister will give a live interview on Bloomberg Television in the morning, as To Paron and Oikonomikos Tachidromos report.

According to both reports, the purpose of the trip is summed up in three axes: investment, artificial intelligence and technology, and multilateral diplomacy, at a time when the country is seeking to attract capital beyond resources from the Recovery Fund and amid recent improvement in Greece’s economic prospects from Moody’s. It has not been clarified, however, whether a bilateral meeting with American government officials is planned during the trip, nor is it yet known what will be the content of the speech the Prime Minister will deliver to the UN General Assembly. More details of the program are expected to emerge in the coming days as the trip unfolds, while political developments are covered on the Politics page.