Greek Foreign Minister to Hold High-Level Meetings in New York
Greece’s Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will travel to New York on Sunday, September 21, in order to participate in the High-Level Week of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Greek official’s programme, as announced by the ministry, includes numerous high-level meetings and contacts with foreign ministers from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, and two interventions at meetings of the Security Council.
The focus will be the war in Ukraine, the crisis in the Middle East, developments in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary global challenges.
Also on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are scheduled to meet in New York on Tuesday, September 23, after weeks of diplomatic effort aimed at de-escalating recent tensions.
International meetings for Greek Foreign Minister Gerapetritis
Gerapetritis will participate in trilateral meetings of the Foreign Ministers of Greece-Cyprus-Egypt, Greece-Cyprus-Jordan and Greece-Cyprus-Syria. In addition, he will participate in the quadrilateral cooperation format of Greece-Romania-Bulgaria-Croatia. He will also attend the Transatlantic Dinner organised by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
In the context of the 80th General Assembly, the minister will participate in the High-Level Meeting to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the founding of the UN, as well as in the International Conference on the Two-State Solution co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia. Gerapetritis will chair the Ministerial Session of the Forum of Ancient Civilisations, of which Greece holds the Presidency in 2025.
Interventions at Security Council meetings
Greece is a member of the United Nations Security Council for the two-year period 2025-2026 and the priorities of its term are the peaceful resolution of disputes, respect for International Law, the “Women, Peace and Security” agenda, climate change and security, children and armed conflicts and maritime security.
Hence, Gerapetritis will make an intervention at the special meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue.
He will also make a second intervention at the meeting of the UN Security Council on relations between the United Nations and the Arab League, under the Presidency of the Republic of Korea.
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