Greece – Turkey | New round of Exploratory Contacts in Athens

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21/02/2022

As mentioned in the relevant announcement, the 64th round of exploratory contacts between the two countries will take place in Athens next Tuesday, February 22.

In the context of promoting the dialogue with Turkey on the issues of the positive agenda in the economic and trade sector, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy and Extroversion, Costas Frangogiannis, will have a working meeting with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Sedat Onal, on February 21, 2022, in Athens.

This is the third meeting of the two Deputy Ministers in the framework of the positive agenda initiative, which was agreed between the Foreign Ministers of Greece and Turkey, Nikos Dendias and Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, in April 2021 and was inaugurated with the first meeting of the two Deputy Ministers in Kavala, on May 28-29 of the same year. The second meeting of Mr. Frangogiannis and Mr. Onal took place in Antalya, on June 16, 2021.

It is recalled that the 63rd round of contacts between Turkey and Greece took place in Ankara on October 6.

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