On the eve of the Conference of the Foreign Ministers of the EU member states and the countries of the Western Balkans, taking place in Thessaloniki on Thursday, 8 May 2014, in the framework of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos had

•    a bilateral meeting with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin.
•    a bilateral meeting with Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean.

Following that, a trilateral meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Romania and Bulgaria also took place.

Find below the Joint Statement of the three Ministers.