The Greece-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council will eventually be held on December 7, in Athens.
Initially, it was scheduled to be hosted in Thessaloniki, on the same date.
According to the foreign ministry, “the fifth High-Level Cooperation Council of Greece-Turkey will be held in Athens on December 7 following the agreement of the two parties.”
The meeting will be held in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, so the next meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will also take place in Athens, as reported by public broadcaster ERT.
Mitsotakis referred to his upcoming meeting with Erdogan in the discussion he had yesterday with the head of the CDU, Friedrich Merz, at an event of the “Konrad Adenauer” Foundation, in Berlin.
Mitsotakis said that the two countries have “agreed on a roadmap for the normalization of our bilateral relations, in order to promote the positive agenda, and not allow the difficulties we have to result in a military confrontation.”
“We convinced Turkey that its previous revisionist attitude towards Greece was extremely counterproductive, while in recent months our relations have been characterized by a détente,” he noted.
It is obvious, he underlined, that “I completely disagree with Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments on Hamas, but this is no reason not to welcome him to Greece in less than a month, when we will discuss our bilateral relations,” Mitsotakis highlighted.
The two sides also agreed to set up a Point of Contact mechanism with a view to communicating and facilitating the implementation of agreed CBMs.
