PM braces for busy week in New York 

The adjacent steps successful Greek-Turkish relations volition beryllium astatine involvement successful a gathering connected Tuesday betwixt Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan successful New York, connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. 

The 2 leaders volition reappraisal the presumption of relations, which person precocious been defined by a fig of disruptions, astir notably the Kassos situation successful July implicit the Greece-Cyprus electrical interconnection (GSI) surveys.

The question is fundamentally whether Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou and her Turkish counterpart, Mehmet Kemal Bozay, volition prosecute successful substantive consultations connected the main differences betwixt Greece and Turkey, namely maritime zones and the continental shelf, successful the discourse of the governmental dialogue, which has included exploratory contacts implicit the past twelvemonth and a half.

Meanwhile, Kathimerini has learned that an statement was reached connected Friday for a gathering betwixt Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

Greek-Chinese contacts astatine the contiguous signifier are of peculiar importance, fixed the improvement connected aggregate levels of the economical relations betwixt the 2 countries.

Moreover, China is simply a imperishable subordinate of the UN Security Council, successful which Greece volition enactment arsenic a non-permanent subordinate arsenic of January 1 for 2 years. Greece’s relation is the absorption of the aggregate contacts that some Mitsotakis and Gerapetritis volition person successful New York.

The existent planetary concern and the processing rifts among assorted groups of nations wrong the United Nations volition marque it highly hard for Greece to support a balance.

The Security Council itself is presently fundamentally divided (permanent members are China, France, Russia, the US and the UK), making its functioning highly difficult, particularly erstwhile it comes to resolutions oregon decisions related to conflicts.

While successful New York, Mitsotakis volition person bilateral meetings with a fig of leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain and Crown Prince Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah of Kuwait.