“I am fully aware of their difficulties Greek-Turkish relations, but no matter how you look at it, today is a very important day,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias stressed in his speech to reporters, commenting on today’s statements with his Turkish counterpart Mevluta Cavusoglu.

“To understand this, it is enough to think about where we were a few weeks ago,” he said.

Recall that following a bilateral meeting held earlier today on the sidelines of the Turkey-Syria donor conference in Brussels, Mr. Dendias and Mr. Cavusoglu announced that Turkey will support and vote for Greece in its campaign for a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council with 25 to 26 years.

Greece will support Turkey’s candidacy for the post of the General Secretariat of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Mr. Dendias spoke to journalists who visited the exhibition of works by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, which opens today in Zappejo. “It’s great that here in Zappeio, a building full of symbolism, we are opening an exhibition of the work of Prime Minister Edi Rama,” said Mr. Dendias.

Recall that in his joint statement with Nikos Dendias at noon, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that “today we agreed to support our candidacies and, I hope, we will be able to continue such cooperation on international platforms.”

Diplomatic sources: Turkey’s support for Greece’s CA candidacy is important.

Negotiations between the foreign ministries of Greece and Turkey have been going on for about 20 days and in absolute secrecy, which led to today’s statements by Foreign Ministers Nikos Dendias and Mevlut Cavusoglu, diplomatic sources said earlier.

As the same sources emphasize, it is important that Turkey has declared that it will support the candidacy of Greece, while it was announced that its compass is Dialogue, Diplomacy and Democracy (3D), and the priority is the peaceful settlement of disputes and respect. for international law.

The same sources also stated that if any problems arise with the Greek candidacy, it will be from Turkey, the Turkic states or Russia. With today’s deal, this factor is eliminated.

^{With information from APE-MPE}