Improving relations between Greece and Turkey could help UN efforts to relaunch Cyprus talks, he said. George Gerapetrite from New York, in anticipation of today’s meeting of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Dialogue without illusions, no retreat from “red lines”, emphasis on the positive agenda: This triptych sums up the attack on Maximos in anticipation of tomorrow’s appointment with the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakou Mitsotakis with the Turkish president, on the sidelines of the GS of UN in New York.
The prime minister and the Turkish president, who last met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington in July, will hold talks at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Willingness to de-escalate”
“There is a strong political will to really mitigate the consequences of our differences and to create some de-escalation mechanisms at ministerial level,” the Foreign Minister noted, in statements quoted by Reuters.
“I could say, in summary, that our relationship has improved significantly and we have established some mutual honesty in things,” Gerapetritis noted.
Gerapetritis said the situation in Cyprus remained “unbearable” but that he was modestly optimistic that talks could soon resume at the United Nations level. “Obviously, the improvement in Greek-Turkish relations clearly provides fertile ground for that,” he said.
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