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Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will on Tuesday chair the National Council on Foreign Policy to discuss security and stability in the Mediterranean in light of the latest developments, at 13.30.
Dendias will brief parties on developments in the Turkey-Libya issue and the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on Monday.

Turkey and Libya have signed an agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea as well as a deal on expanded security and military cooperation, the Turkish government said on Thursday.

Of particular interest at the Trump-Erdogan meeting were the references of the two presidents to France, focusing on the French president’s statements on NATO. Macron had described – in Economist magazine – the Atlantic Alliance as “clinically dead” and in a state of being “brain dead.” He had also flogged Turkey, accusing it of launching an attack on another country, Syria, in an area where French interests are at stake. Macron has reasonably wondered whether, under Article 5, NATO should hurry to assist Turkey if the Assad regime decides to defend militarily against the Turkish troops that have invaded Syria.