Nikos Dendias

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is attending an EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels focused mainly on Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Monday's meeting is chaired by the EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias says he has urged United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to intensify efforts for a Cyprus settlement based on UN resolutions. 

Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini's diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the significance of Christodoulides' visit to Athens, break down whether the lull in Ankara's aggressive behavior that we are seeing is temporary or here to stay, and look at Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias' recent trip to Kosovo.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will meet with the Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres in New York on Thursday to discuss, among others, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cyprus, developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Balkans.

The meeting is scheduled at 3.30 p.m. (local time).

Turkish and Greek foreign ministers, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Nikos Dendias, respectively exchanged a phone conversation over consular affairs on March 14, diplomatic sources informed.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu confirmed in a phone call to Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias that authorities would allow the jailed father of a train driver killed in the Tempe train crash to be released from a Turkish prison so that he can attend his son's funeral.

The issue was raised by Dendias in a phone discussion Cavusoglu on Monday.

Construction work on a basketball court jointly funded by a Greek government donation has begun in Ghana, the Foreign Ministry tweeted on Friday.

Construction work has started in St.Nicholas' Greek School in Tema #Ghana, for a 🏀court which is co-funded from a donation by the 🇬🇷 Government

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his new Cyprus counterpart Constantinos Kombos during a press conference in Athens Thursday. In his first official visit, Kombos ruled out Turkish proposals for a two-state solution to resolve the division of the Mediterranean island.

Ankara's decision not only to allow the imprisoned father of an off-duty train driver who was killed in last week's deadly rail accident in central Greece to attend his son's funeral, but also to serve the rest of his sentence in a Greek prison was seen in Athens as another indication of the significant improvement in Greek-Turkish relations. 

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will receive with his new Cypriot counterpart, Constantinos Kombos, in Athens on Thursday.

This will be the first visit of the Cypriot Foreign Minister to Greece since taking office. The two ministers will hold talks during a working lunch before making joint statements to the press.