The Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Cyprus and Greece – Ararat Mirzoyan, Ioannis Kasoulides and Nikos Dendias – met on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, September 19.

During the meeting security issues related to the South Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean were discussed.

Mirzoyan presented the situation resulting from the recent Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia, Dendias weighed in on the escalation of the hostile rhetoric of Turkey against Greece, while Kasoulides briefed his counterparts on the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the latest developments regarding the Cyprus reunification process.

According to a statement from the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Kasoulides and Dendias expressed their solidarity and support to the Armenian people. The foreign ministers expressed readiness to continue active contacts within the trilateral format in order to bring it to a qualitatively new level and expand the scope of cooperation.

The sides also discussed issues related to the Armenia-EU partnership.