The meeting of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with Tayyip Erdogan in New York confirmed the mutual will and effort to move the relations of the two countries into a new phase without the tension of the past.

"We obviously have significant differences, but we can agree that based on good neighborly relations and respect for international law, we will draw up a road map so that we can resolve our geopolitical difference which is none other than the delimitation of maritime zones, i.e. EEZ and continental shelf, in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean", said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis while attending the NATO Summit in Vilnius.

Cyprus has the right to develop resources lying within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the US State Department said on Thursday, on the occasion of the ENI-Total consortium's discovery of natural gas potential in Block 6 of the Cyprus EEZ.