Giorgos Katrougalos

As part of the ongoing Strategic Dialogue between Greece and the US, Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos hosted a working meeting on Thursday with an American delegation led by Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt.

British Ambassador to Athens Kate Smith on Tuesday hailed a letter sent earlier in the day by Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos to his UK counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, vowing to safeguard the rights of Britons living in Greece after Brexit.

The new members of the cabinet, announced last Friday, are to be sworn in during a ceremony at 6.30 p.m. on Monday during a ceremony at the presidential mansion to be attended by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday visited an Istanbul seminary shut down in 1971, becoming the first serving Greek prime minister to do so.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday visited the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Greece has called for "political dialogue" to end the crisis in Venezuela where opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself the country's president after mass protests against Nicolas Maduro.

Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee is due on Wednesday to vote on the entirety of the proposals submitted by Greece's political parties and lawmakers after the government and the opposition clashed over the final set of proposed changes.

Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos signed the ratification law for the Prespes agreement which was approved by the Greek Parliament earlier on Friday.

"Greece leads in peace and stability in the Balkans and Europe. A new era for our relations with our neighbors," the minister said in a tweet.

European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen will visit Athens on January 29 to participate in a joint meeting of the Greek Parliament's committees on european affairs, production and trade and economics.

Katainen, who is Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, will speak at a session titled "The future of Europe: Challenges and opportunities."

Greece will not seek to imitate Turkey's escalating rhetoric and provocations, Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said on Friday after chairing a meeting of the National Council for Foreign Affairs (ESEP) to discuss deteriorating relations with Ankara.