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Greece and Türkiye can "establish an approach of mutual understanding not as an exception, but as a productive normalcy that is not annulled by the well-known differences in our positions," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said after meeting in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.

Issues of sovereignty cannot be put on the dialogue's table, underlined Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis speaking of the Greek-Turkish relations in an interview with the Sunday newspaper Vradyni.

The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, during the meeting with the Albanian diaspora in Greece, said that the relations between the two countries are much closer than they appeared.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Ankara on Monday where he will meet with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepting the Turkish president's invitation and in exchange of Erdogan's visit to Greece in December 2023.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who was touring the island of Chios on Friday, sent a message to rally voters and warned against 'protest' voting.

Minister of Education, Religious Affairs & Sports Kyriakos Pierrakakis paid an official visit to the Vatican, where he raised the issue of Turkiye's conversion of the historic Monastery of Chora in Istanbul into a mosque.

The world is at risk of missing the goal of restricting planetary warming to 1.5C unless all countries get behind the effort and act swiftly, Greece's ambassadors to the European Climate Pact warned in statements to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), uniting their voices with those of colleagues in another 27 European Union countries in the battle against climate change.

"As the Holy Week is about to end, the expectation of the Resurrection fills us all with hope, strength and optimism," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined in his Easter message on Saturday."Tradition dictates that we spend these Holy Easter days together with our loved ones. Our thoughts, however, must be primarily with our weakest fellow citizens, those who more than ever need our support these days, but also to all Greek uniform personnel, those who day and night, and these Holy days, they are fighting so that we all can be safe," he added.

Mass transportation schedules in Athens will be adjusted for the Greek Orthodox Easter period, from Holy Friday to Wednesday after Easter.

The plenary session of the Parliament passed a bill of the justice ministry on Wednesday, May 1.

Travel receipts in 2023 totalled 20,593.6 million euros, up by 16.5% compared with 2022, the Bank of Greece said on Tuesday in a final report on 2023.

The draft law of the Interior Ministry on the productivity bonus for civil servants stands out on the agenda of the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The registration rate of voters for the postal vote is increasing as the relevant deadline approaches which is on Monday 29 April (Holy Monday).

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapatritis wrapped up his visit to Kuwait with a meeting with his counterpart Abdullah Ali Al-Yahya on Thursday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday attended an event presenting the works for restoring the damage from the destructive 2023 storms 'Daniel' and 'Elias' at the Mouzaki Municipal Cinema Theatre. In a speech, he thanked the regional and municipal local authorities and all residents of Thessaly for their patience, stoicism and their determination to repair the "great destruction we all experienced".