For about 20 days and with absolute secrecy, the discussions between the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministries that led to today’s announcements by Foreign Ministers Nikos Dendias and Mevlut Cavusoglu were ongoing, as diplomatic sources reported.

Following a bilateral meeting, held on the sidelines of the Turkey-Syria Donors Conference in Brussels, the two ministers announced earlier today that Turkey will support and will vote in favor of Greece in her campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council ’25-’26. Greece will support the Turkish candidacy for the General Secretariat of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

As the diplomatic sources underlined, it is important that Turkey has declared that it will support the Greek candidacy, while it has been announced that it has Dialogue, Diplomacy and Democracy (3D) as its compass, and has as its priority the peaceful settlement of disputes and respect for International Law.

The same sources also stated that if any problem were to arise with Greece’s candidacy, it would be from Turkey or the Turkic states or from Russia. With today’s agreement, one factor is ruled out.