Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias spoke on the phone with Libyan parliament president Aguila Saleh Eissa on Thursday evening.

EU Foreign Ministers in their statement on the situation in the East Mediterranean "explicitly condemned the escalating and illegal behavior of Turkey in the East Mediterranean and the Aegean, including the violations of Greece's territorial waters and airspace," Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Friday, following the EU's Council of Foreign Affairs, held by videoconference.

Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias exchanged views and recent policy experiences in tackling the coronavirus pandemic with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, speaking on the telephone on Thursday.