Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York. During this meeting, they agreed to tighten Greek-Turkish collaboration on the refugees issue.

An official announcement on the meetings states that Tsipras pledged Greece’s support to a just and viable solution on the Cyprus issue within the framework of a United Nations resolution. Turkey was called to support UN talks.

The two leaders also discussed upgrading collaboration in the sectors of the economy, culture and transportation.

Tsipras, on his part, said Greece wants open lines of communication with Turkey at a diplomatic level and welcomed talks for confidence-building measures provided that there was a respect of International law.