JOURNALIST: Mr. Minister, how did your meeting with Sergey Lavrov go?
N. KOTZIAS: We have had a number of meetings at the UN. The General Assembly is very, very important for both multilateral and bilateral negotiations, and in this context we saw the Foreign Minister of Russia. 2016 is the Year of Greek-Russian Friendship and cooperation, and I invited him to come to Athens this year so that we can move ahead with our cooperation.
JOURNALIST: What other issues did you discuss?
N. KOTZIAS: As you would expect right now, we talked to the Russians today about Syria, as we do with everyone we meet with. This morning we saw the Foreign Minister of Iran on the issue. We’ve talked to the Americans. We’ve talked with the European Foreign Ministers twice, here in New York City. So, the Syrian issue, the prospects for cooperation and our cooperation goals. We also talked about the situation in Ukraine and, naturally, about Greek-Russian cooperation. Thank you very much.
September 29, 2015