Newsroom / CNA
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Thursday, on the sidelines of the informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels.
According to Greek diplomatic sources, Euro-Turkish relations, the Cyprus issue and Greek-Turkish relations will be inter alia on the agenda of the meeting, that will take place in view of a meeting which the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis will have with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in September, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
"It is particularly significant that after 5 years a Turkish Foreign Minister will participate in the lunch taking place in the framework of the informal meeting. This is because it gives us the opportunity to raise, before the Foreign Ministers of the European Union, the issues that concern us," the same sources said.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana ended inconclusively.
