Prime Minister Antonis Samaras held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on June 22. The Turkish premier congratulated Samaras upon the assumption of his duties, while both sides stressed the need for close cooperation between the two countries in many sectors.

The two premiers also decided to reactivate the Greek-Turkish High-Level Cooperation Council, which was formed in 2010 but has been inactive for some time now. The details of the Council’s first meeting -to be held soon in Ankara- will be agreed by Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos and his Turkish counterpart Mehmet Davutoglu, in the context of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) meeting to take place in Istanbul on June 25-26.