Turkey and Greece agreed to recognize each other’s COVID-19 vaccine certificates, the foreign ministers of the two countries announced on Monday.
“The agreement we reached today will mutually contribute positively to our tourism sectors,” Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a joint news conference with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Athens.
Turkey has started to work on concrete projects with a focus on action and cooperation with the Greek side and the two countries agreed on 25 items in the list of areas of cooperation including in transport, energy, environment, tourism, and trade, Cavusoglu said.
He said Turkey is ready for dialogue without any preconditions to improve bilateral relations with Greece.
“We agreed to resolve differences within the framework of good neighborly relations, international law and respect for mutual interests,” he said.
Cavusoglu said the fifth round of meeting on confidence-building measures between Turkish and Greek defense delegations is scheduled to be held in Turkey’s capital Ankara.
Dendias, for his part, said they discussed bilateral relations as well as the EU- Turkey relations in the meeting.
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