Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis arrived in New York in order to participate in the proceedings of the High-Level Week of the 81st Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, according to a relevant announcement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Greek minister's program includes numerous high-level meetings and contacts with foreign ministers from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
He will also hold a bilateral meeting with the president of the 81st UN General Assembly, UN, Philemon Yang.
At the center of the foreign minister's meetings will be the crisis in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, developments in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary global challenges, such as the reform of the United Nations and the strengthening of multilateral cooperation.
Mr. Gerapetritis will participate in trilateral meetings of the foreign ministers of Greece-Cyprus-Egypt and Greece-Cyprus-Jordan, as well as in the quadrilateral cooperation format of Greece-Romania-Bulgaria-Croatia.
In the context of the proceedings of the 81st General Assembly, the foreign minister will attend a Ministerial Working Dinner on the Middle East.
He will also participate in the Informal Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Western Balkans, in the Informal Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, as well as in the Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends for the Security of Shipping and Seafarers.
The foreign minister will also participate in an event on Artificial Intelligence co-organized by Greece and India.
During his stay in New York, Mr. Gerapetritis will be a speaker at an event at Columbia University, co-organized by the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the European Institute of Columbia University and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI), on the topic “Between power and principles: Conducting foreign policy in a world in transition”.
SOURCE: ANA-MPA