Minister for Foreign Affairs

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson fix their ties before posing to photographers at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, Thursday. Talks between the two men focused on the latest United Nations-mediated drive for reunifying Cyprus and on increasing concerns about Turkey, sources indicated.

At a summit of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Friday Greece's envoy Nikos Kotzias called on the alliance to re-examine its relationship with Israel, essentially to boost its sense of security so that it can promote a two-state solution for the Middle East problem.

The suggestion by Kotzias followed a recent improvement in ties between Greece and Israel.

When angered by the inappropriate attitudes of friends, don't we often say "With friends like you, who needs an enemy?" Seeing the awful performance of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias ever since he assumed the foreign minister portfolio in Alexis Tsipras' government, perhaps that expression should be reworded as "With Kotzias as foreign minister, do the Greeks need an enemy?"

Greece will not accept back refugees from Germany who have been refused asylum, stated Greek Foreign minister Nikos Kotzias before the meeting with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel in Athens.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said Germany had a hegemonic role in Europe and was demanding more austerity measures from Greece in an interview to magazine “National Interest”. In his interview given to the magazine’s publisher J. Heilbrunn, Mr. Kotzias argued Germany’s goal was to drain Greece and not bring growth to the country.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias discussed the key role Greece can play to help maintain stability in a fragile geopolitical environment during a meeting with Donald Trump's top security adviser in Washington.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias stressed the important role Greece can play as a pillar of stability in a volatile region and its prospects as a regional energy hub in his meeting on Monday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington.

The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias will have a meeting with Rex Tillerson on March 13th in Washington. The meeting is a very good opportunity for Athens to express its concerns about the Turkish dangerously provocative stance of the last months and to promote its positions on a series of issues and especially the Cyprus negotiations.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Wednesday heralded revelations about alleged swindling of state funds, notably by a nongovernmental organization which, he claimed, squirreled away funding destined for a public project to a private bank account in Central America.

Responding to a series of inflammatory comments by Turkish government officials about sovereignty in the Aegean, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Friday underlined the need to keep "open all channels of communication" with Ankara to ensure that "there is no accident or tense incident."