Intergovernmental organizations

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis had a reportedly warm telephone conversation on Friday with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.

Gerapetritis stressed that Athens encourages all international initiatives aimed at restoring Ukraine's sovereignty and preventing humanitarian crises.

Redoubling support for war-stricken Ukraine is the "single best" way to aid the global economy, U.S .Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday, along with boosting emerging economies and tackling debt distress.

Greece congratulated Slovenia, its partner and ally in the European Union, for its election as member of the UN Security Council for the term 2014-2025, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.

The FM also congratulated Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, and South Korea who were elected new members of the UN Security Council for 2024-2025.

President Joe Biden's departure Wednesday to the G7 in Japan was meant to launch a geostrategic masterclass on rallying the world's democracies against China. Instead, he will limp into an abruptly truncated journey facing concerns that the US debt ceiling row is about to tear up the global economy.

The United Nations chief sharply criticized the "grotesque greed" of oil and gas companies on Aug. 3 for making record profits from the energy crisis on the back of the world's poorest people, "while destroying our only home."

Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati is attending the gathering of G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs in Indonesia where they seek strategies to counter the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine, inflation and other global crises.

Multilateralism should be kept protected by avoiding bilateral acts in foreign policy, Türkiye's top diplomat has said, citing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a very bad example of bilateralism.

According to the Russian ambassador to China, it is necessary to expand the UN Security Council to include African, Asian and Latin American countries in order to make it "more democratic".

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Layen, stated that she does not support the idea of a boycott of the G20 summit if Russian leader Vladimir Putin participates in it.

During their meeting, the Ministers reaffirmed their common will and determination to further develop coordination