On July 12, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York. During the meeting, the Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for the efforts of the Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy María Angela Holguín to restart the talks on the Cyprus issue.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined that the fact that Cyprus 50 years after the tragedy of 1974 remains divided is an unacceptable situation and stressed that every opportunity for a solution to the Cyprus issue must be leveraged on the basis of the UN Security Council resolutions.
They also discussed Greece’s assumption of a non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council for the years 2025/26. The Prime Minister briefed the Secretary-General on the Hellenic tenure’s priorities and stressed that Greece aspires to become a bridge between the South and the North, the West and the East, as it is a member-state of the EU, of NATO, and, at the same time, talks with countries of the Global South.