Nikos Kotzias

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will visit Athens on Friday for a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ahead of the January 12 multilateral summit in Geneva, reports said Tuesday.

Talks between the two leaders will be attended by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides, reports said.

The Greek minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias provided an in-depth analysis of the latest developments so far regarding the ongoing negotiations about the Cyprus dispute to the representatives of all the political parties.

The Council convened in the light of the upcoming meeting of the participating sides in Geneva on January the 12th.
 

Greece's National Council on Foreign Policy (NCFP) will meet on Friday to discuss developments regarding the ongoing Cyprus talks, the Foreign Ministry announced Monday.

The council will meet under Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, the statement said.

A month before crucial United Nations talks on the Cyprus issue in Geneva, which have been portrayed as a last chance to achieve reunification of the Mediterranean island, diplomatic activity is in full throttle.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will meet Wednesday in Brussels ahead of a European Union leaders summit on Thursday.

“Greek-Turkish relations are a European issue,” declared the President of the Greek Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, today. “Those who think that international law is the law of the mighty are wrong.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is expected to arrive in Athens on Tuesday, November 1 on an official visit. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a press release stating that matters included on the agenda of talks would be trade, economy, investment and energy cooperation, as well as international affairs and the EU-Russian relations.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrives in Athens Tuesday as part of a tour of the region, including Turkey and Cyprus.

He will hold talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias.

The agenda of the meetings will revolve around the migration issue and economic cooperation between Greece and France.

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras  will visit Izmir on Tuesday to participate in the 4th meeting of the bilateral High-Level Cooperation Council, just a few hours after the end of EU summit on refugee that took place in Brussels.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias blamed the interpreter for his lukewarm reaction to the statement of his Turkish counterpart Melvut Cavusoglu who said “Whether it is your island, or my island? Such matters are not on the table when it concerns issues of rescue”.

On his official visit to Greece, Turkish Foreign Minister Melvut Cavusoglu said that matters of national sovereignty are of secondary importance when it comes to rescuing refugees, on Friday, March 3. During the joint press conference held after a meeting with his Greek counterpart, Nikos Kotzias, the Turkish diplomat said “Whether it is your island, or my island?