The under-secretary-general of the United Nations and high representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Angel Moratinos, was in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki last week representing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the award ceremony for the Empress Theophano Prize, which this year went to the international organization. […]
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday afternoon calling for an “immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. Four EU countries voted against the resolution; Greece and 13 other EU countries abstained.
The Greek Foreign Ministry has welcomed the consensus that was reached “after intense, thorough negotiations between the Republic of Cyprus and the UN Peacekeeping Force about the area north of Pyla.”
The United Nations has reached an “understanding” to defuse a standoff in ethnically split Cyprus which triggered scuffles involving peacekeepers in August, its mission said on Monday.
Greece will seek to make climate and migration central tenets of its work on the UN Security Council should its candidacy for the body for 2025/2026 be successful, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the 78th UN General Assembly on Thursday.
Greece’s foreign policy, as a founding member of the United Nations, has always been defined by its commitment to International Law, said Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs George Gerapetritis on Thursday in New York, in his address to the UN Security Council high-level open debate on Ukraine.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. During the meeting, international and regional issues were discussed, as reported by the Greek side.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, a day after meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelined of the event.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the inclusion of Zagorochoria (Zagori villages) on Mount Pindos, northwestern Greece, in UNESCO’s World Heritage List on social media on Wednesday.
“Plans for a two-state solution are out of the (negotiations) agenda,” Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said in New York Tuesday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used his address to the UN General Assembly to call on the international community to recognize the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus as an independent state.
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides will be meeting with European Council chief Charles Michel on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to discuss peace talks on the divided Mediterranean island.
Turkey’s foreign minister accused the United Nations of abandoning its neutrality on Tuesday, a day after the UN Security Council criticized construction work by Turkish Cypriots inside the buffer zone dividing Cyprus and condemned their assault on UN peacekeepers.
The UN Security Council on Monday called unauthorized construction by Turkish Cypriots inside the UN buffer zone dividing Cyrus a violation of the status quo that is contrary to council resolutions and it condemned their assault on UN peacekeepers.
Turkey’s president on Monday criticized UN peacekeepers for blocking the construction of a road in ethnically divided Cyprus, calling the action “unacceptable” and accusing the peacekeeping force of bias against Turkish Cypriots.
Greece “wholeheartedly welcomes the United States’ decision to rejoin UNESCO,” the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a day after the US announced its intention to rejoin UNESCO next month.
