Lena Argiri, the Washington, DC correspondent for ERT – the Greek Public Broadcasting Company – and Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to look into her latest scoop from Washington, DC on a US proposal that could see a resolution to the Russian S-400 missile issue with Turkey and possibly open the door for Ankara to rejoin the F-35 program.
Expectations are low ahead of Tuesday’s meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
It is always useful for the Greek prime minister to get together with the Turkish president, whatever the state of bilateral relations; be it tense or relatively calm, as has been the case during more than a year now.
Israel is not facing sufficient pressure to end the war in Gaza and the escalation in Lebanon is a minefield that the international community may not be able to deal with, Greece’s foreign minister said on Monday.
An improvement in Greek-Turkish relations could help UN efforts revive talks between Cyprus’ divided communities, Greece’s foreign minister said on Monday ahead of a meeting between the Turkish and Greek leaders in New York on Tuesday.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis attended the Ministerial Working Breakfast of the “Friends of the Western Balkans” Group in New York on Monday, part of the 79th UN General Assembly. He reaffirmed Greece’s commitment to supporting the European prospects of six Western Balkan countries.
Prime minister Mitsotakis will meet with president Erdogan on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the government spokesperson stated on Monday.
I am not an expert in international relations, much less in Greek-Turkish relations. However, as a historian, I have always been struck by the significant shift in Greek foreign policy with the rise of PASOK to power.
Turkey, among the world’s sharpest critics of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, will use the UN General Assembly this week to highlight what it says is a genocide unfolding there and will urge international pressure on Israel.
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.
During the summer, the United States submitted a detailed proposal for the resolution of the issue regarding Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian S-400 air-defense system.
The leaders of Cyprus, France and Greece will meet in New York next week to discuss the Israel-Cyprus-Greece power grid connection and developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus’ government spokesman said Saturday.
Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, calling on Western countries to take “deterrent steps” against Israel’s actions.
Cyprus’s president called for restraint over escalating tensions in the Middle East in separate telephone conversations with the Lebanese and Israeli prime ministers on Saturday, his spokesperson said in a statement.
The next steps in Greek-Turkish relations will be at stake in a meeting on Tuesday between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will travel to New York on Saturday to participate in the 79th UN General Assembly, where he is also expected to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
