Coordination with Nicosia ‘more necessary than ever,’ PM tells Cypriot counterpart

Ahead of the UN General Assembly successful a fewer days, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted the necessity of coordination betwixt Greece and Cyprus during his gathering connected Thursday with visiting Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.

The 2 leaders discussed each the issues that interest the 2 countries regarding the contacts being made implicit the Cyprus occupation and the concern successful the Middle East.

According to well-informed sources, the contented of the Greece-Cyprus energy interconnection (GSI) was besides raised, with governmental discussions reportedly progressing satisfactorily.

“Greece and Cyprus are 2 countries that are pillars of stableness successful a precise turbulent geopolitical portion of the world. So, I would accidental that astatine this juncture especially, our coordination is much indispensable than ever,” Mitsotakis said, referring to the coordination of actions successful presumption of “emerging developments connected the Cyprus issue.”

The biggest situation for Athens and Nicosia astatine this signifier is the absorption of the Cyprus situation, arsenic Ankara’s pugnacious stance is creating obstacles to the imaginable resumption of talks.

Mitsotakis is slated to conscionable with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres successful New York, portion helium is to besides conscionable Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which has wider significance, not lone for the Cyprus issue, but chiefly for Greek-Turkish relations.

For his part, Christodoulides noted that Nicosia volition proceed connected the way of trying to resume talks connected the governmental occupation of Cyprus, promising enactment and not words.

“The existent authorities of affairs is not the solution to the problem,” helium stressed, portion expressing anticipation that a solution to the Cyprus problem, combined with the afloat normalization of Greek-Turkish relations, would item the stabilizing relation played by Athens and Nicosia successful the region.