Talking to the press corps on Wednesday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he briefly met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Hague.
Mitsotakis, who called the meeting “normal” at such gatherings, informed reporters that the two countries were in the process of finalizing a date for the next Supreme Greek-Turkish Council of Cooperation.
“We raised the matters we had to and are waiting for a convenient date for the Supreme Cooperation Council to be able to make more public statements,” he noted.
Commenting on the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Erdogan after the official NATO Summit dinner on Tuesday evening, the Greek premier stressed that Greece did not define itself by what others do.
On the tensions in the Middle East, and specifically on the Iran-Israel conflict, Mitsotakis called for the urgent need to return to the negotiating table to make sure “Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons,” adding that this should not be achieved through military means.
The Greek Prime Minister stressed he had the opportunity to raise the recent suicide attack in a Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus that killed 25 people.
Regarding the issue of Libya, Mitsotakis emphasized the security challenges posed to the alliance by the instrumentalization of migrant flows, noting Greece continued to play a stabilizing role in the wider region.
