A meeting of the European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is expected take place in Brussels.
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Serzh Sargsyan and Alexis Tsipras stressed the importance of deepening the mutually beneficial cooperation in a number of areas – trade and economy, agriculture, culture, education, health care, tourism.
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Alternate Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Nikos Xydakis, participated in the meeting of the EU General Affairs Council, held on Tuesday in Brussels.
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Sergei Prikhodko participated in the opening ceremony of the Greek – Russian Cultural Cross-Year in Athens. Both parts confirmed their countries’ intention to further develop bilateral cooperation in all fields.
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During their meeting in Rome yesterday, Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis and his Italian counterpart, the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister for European Affairs, Sandro Gozi, ascertained that “citizens look upon the European Union with skepticism. This is not the fault of citizens, but of the policies implemented by the Union. And we have to try to change this.”
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Sergei Prikhodko will attend the official ceremony of the launch of the “Russia-Greece Cross-Cultural Year”, an initiative that is running throughout 2016.
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The EU Council is expected to complete relevant procedures in the near future allowing Georgian citizens holding biometric passports to enter the EU/Schengen area without visa for short stays.
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The two countries discussed the ratification of a Memorandum of Understanding, regarding their cooperation on European Union issues.
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Tusk: “We agreed that despite good implementation of the Joint Action Plan on migration, the flow of migrants passing from Turkey to Greece remains much too high and needs to be brought down significantly.”
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Following their meeting with Prime Minister Davutoğlu, the EU Heads of State or Government addressed the migration situation, in particular as regards the Western Balkans route. They welcomed their discussion with the Turkish Prime Minister on EU-Turkey relations and on the progress made in the implementation of the Joint Action Plan.
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