Greek side with fYRoM FM

    Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas met with visiting fYRoM Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki on Tuesday on the sidelines of the OSCE ministerial conference in Athens, after which Milososki also had a brief meeting with Prime Minister and Foreign Minister George Papandreou.

   

    Droutsas told reporters afterwards that Athens was taking advantage of every opportunity for direct contacts, with the aim of cementing a positive climate between the two sides, although he reiterated that the only process for negotiations on the outstanding "name issue" remains under UN mediation.

   

    Papandreou also conducted several sideline meetings with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs, Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta, German Deputy FM Werner Hoyer, and OSCE secretary general Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Droutsas noted.

   

    The Greek alternate foreign minister said such meetings provided the opportunity to discuss Greece's issues, in addition to the OSCE issues, such as the Balkans and their EU course, the Cyprus issue and EU-Turkey relations, in light of the EU summit in 10 days' time.

   

    After a lunch break, Droutsas and Ukraine Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko are slated to sign a MoC between the two ministries, as well as a MoC between the postal services of the two countries.

   

   

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