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Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini said in an interview with Russia's Kommersant that his country does not exclude joining NATO. Soini, however, explicitly stresses that his country is not currently discussing this issue.

The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Kotzias said at the presser that followed the 2nd Ministerial meeting among government officials from Albania, Bulgaria, FYROM and Greece, that he saw it as a step toward development and cooperation.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Monday that Greece is willing to continue participating in Cyprus reunification talks within the framework of proposals presented by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Crans-Montana peace conference in July.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reacted strongly to press reports suggesting that the country’s rule of law is in danger due to particular court decisions.

It all began in 2010, well before Kotzias became a minister, when the Athens Review of Books magazine published a letter of a reader calling Kotzias “a true gauleiter of Stalinism”.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias accused the United Nations mediator for the Cyprus problem, Espen Barth Eide, of trying to undermine the island's reunification process.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is this Monday paying a working visit to Greece.

According to the Serbian government, he will meet with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias.

Greece's foreign minister said Thursday that rival sides in talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus haven't broken any new ground on the key issue of security that could pave the way to a peace deal.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday's meeting in Athens with his counterpart in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), that he sees a willingness emanating from Skopje to reach a solution to the decades-old name dispute and to "finish with irredentism."

Former Prime Minister and Honorary President of the main opposition party New Democracy, Konstantinos Mitsotakis died an hour after Sunday midnight at the age of 99.

His family issued a simple statement:

“Konstantinos Mitsotakis passed away at one o’ clock after midnight, surrounded by the people he loved and loved him”.

The National Council on Foreign Policy will convene on Wednesday for a briefing by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis on Greece's energy plans in the Eastern Mediterranean in light of the recent developments in the region.