Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos made the following statement following his meeting today, 1 April, in Brussels, with Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, on the margins of the EU-Africa Summit:
“Our priority is to strengthen our relations on both the bilateral level and on the European Union-Africa level. Greece is the current Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and for this reason our priority is to hold the EU-Algeria Cooperation Council at the soonest possible time.
I also look forward to seeing my Algerian counterpart in Athens, for the Meeting of EU and Arab League Foreign Ministers. We are in contact, and I was very happy to receive an official invitation to visit Algeria at the soonest possible time, before the end of the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the European Union.”
Thank you very much.”
April 1, 2014