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The minister will be briefing the leaders on issues of national interest, with a focus on Greek-Turkish relations, the Cyprus issue, and the evolving situation in Syria.

Strong effort to keep any dispute between the two sides off the table was made as evident by recent statements by both Gerapetritis and Fidan ahead of Friday's meeting.

The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Brussels on the sidelines of the Informal Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers on Thursday

The two met on the sidelines of the NATO summit where Greece's foreign minister George Gerapetritis stressed the need for peace, the release of all hostages and more humanitarian aid

Gerapetritis added that a humanitarian crisis was transpiring in Gaza, with the concerns now being spillover in the wider Middle East.  

The Foreign Affairs Council, chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Josep Borrell, takes place in Luxembourg, April 22, starting at 8:30am

The NATO Summit is being held in Brussels on Aprill 3 and 4 and the Greek Foreign Minister has planned meetings with US Sec of State Antony Blinken, Turkey's FM Hakan Fidan and others

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides received visiting Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis in Nicosia on Tuesday evening for a working meeting, talks also attended by Cypriot FM Constantinos Kombos and Deputy Minister of European Affairs Marilena Raouna. The meeting was characterized as part of regular contacts between Athens and Nicosia on a variety of European and […]

The Blinken-Gerapetritis meeting is expected to take place on the sidelines of the NATO meeting between April 3-4

Top diplomat speaks at 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, as Athens also seeks two-year membership with latter institution

The meeting is part of the 5th Strategic Dialogue Greece-United States

Talks revolved on bilateral and regional issues, with a focus on the Mideast, according to diplomatic sources

"Greece, as a robust member of the European Union and belonging to the broader Eastern Mediterranean region, can engage with the involved parties. It is one of the few countries with this capability precisely because it has built diplomatic capital through the foreign policy principles it exercises," he noted

In an interview with Al Arabiya news channel Gerapetritis said that both humanitarian aid as well the possibility of the conflict escalating is of great concern

In indirectly referring to Turkish claims, he said issues of sovereignty have not been raised, nor will they ever be, he added

The Greek side briefed the US Secretary of State on Athens’ positions regarding the Mideast and expressing Athens' concern over a regional spillover of the crisis.

The British side requested the meeting a day after the British Prime Minister abruptly cancelled a scheduled meeting with visiting Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.