Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos met with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in York, on the sidelines of the 69th UN General Assembly.

Mr. Venizelos and Mr. Lieberman had the opportunity to discuss the whole spectrum of bilateral cooperation and Greek-Israeli political and economic relations.

More specifically, they talked about the issue of the upcoming Greek-Israeli political consultations, on the level of Foreign Ministry Secretaries General, in November, and they agreed to hold the next High-Level Intergovernmental Cooperation Council in 2015, in Athens, which will be organized on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Finally, they discussed the latest developments in the Middle East and the wider region, as well as the prospects for energy cooperation opening up on a bilateral level, between Greece and Israel, as well as trilaterally, together with Cyprus.