At the invitation of Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will depart for Budapest on Holy Monday, 6 April 2015, to take part the following day in a Pentalateral Ministerial Meeting between Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Serbia and FYROM on the subject of energy security in Central and Southeast Europe.

On Holy Monday, Mr. Kotzias will meet with the representative of the Greek national minority in the Hungarian Parliament, Laokratis Koranis, and with members of the Greek community of Hungary.

On Holy Tuesday, Mr. Kotzias will meet with the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and he will have one-on-one meetings, on the margins of the Pentalateral Ministerial, with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, FYROM Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, and Turkish European Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkir.

Following the Ministerial, Mr. Kotzias will depart directly for Moscow in order to participate in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s visit to Russia.