Returning from the U.S., where he had a series of important meetings with top Administration officials and with the UN Secretary-General, Minister of Foreign Affairs, N. Kotzias, will attend a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Monday, 28 May, in Brussels.
Mr. Kotzias will then travel to Berlin, where, on the evening of Monday, 28 May, he will be received by the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
On Tuesday, 29 May, Mr. Kotzias will meet with his German counterpart, H. Maas. The talks will focus on bilateral cooperation, with emphasis on the implementation of the Greek-German Bilateral Action Plan that was signed in 2016, and on European and regional issues, with emphasis on developments in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Within June, the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs will visit Moscow at the invitation of his Russian counterpart S. Lavrov, and a few days later he will receive the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, J.-Y. Le Drian, in Athens.
This round of the Minister of Foreign Affair’s high-level meetings will be completed during the summer with an official bilateral visit to the People’s Republic of China, on a date to be finalized in the coming days.
May 27, 2018