In his Foreign Affairs Council European Unionwhich will take place on Monday in Brussels, will be attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias.

The work of the Council will be preceded by a working breakfast of EU foreign ministers with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsykhanovskaya, on the agenda of which will be the topics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba at the beginning of the discussion) and developments in the Western Balkans. The situation in the Great Lakes region will be discussed at the working lunch.

Subsequently, in the Council, under the heading “Current Affairs”, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs will exchange views on current international and regional events, including the events in Lebanon, Iran, and the High Representative will inform on the process of sending observers to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, events related to 27 th Conference of the UN Climate Convention (COP27), as well as the results of the EU summit. – CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños – Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), held in Buenos Aires on 27 October.

Nikos Dendias is expected to brief his colleagues on developments in the Aegean sea as well as southeastern mediterraneanThis is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Recall that on Friday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the statements of Turkish officials regarding granting observer status to the pseudo-state in the Organization of Turkic States.

Turkey believes that this decision is an initial, small step towards the recognition of the “TRNC” as an independent state, which Ankara has long claimed.

Athens and Nicosia view the granting of observer status to the pseudo-state of the Organization of Turkic States as an extremely worrisome development.

Turkey’s statements regarding the participation of a pseudo-state with observer status in the Organization of Turkic States was condemned by the EU representative responsible for foreign policy issues Peter Stano.

For its part, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that “the international community should abandon its position that the Greek Cypriot side is the sole owner of the island and recognize the “TRNC”.