Busy week of meetings for PM at the UN

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the most important of a number of crucial encounters that he and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will have on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Government sources told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) that the Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting will take place on Tuesday at 11.40 a.m. local time (6.40 p.m. Greek time).

The meeting could either prove to be a turning point in the bilateral relations of the two uneasy NATO allies, or a continuation of the same, with political dialogue on the most important issues dividing them essentially stalled and with little prospect of a breakthrough, but with lower-level talks - the so-called positive agenda and confidence-building measures - continuing.

Mitsotskis will also meet with UN...