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Visit of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to New York to attend the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 16-23 September 2021
Visit of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to New York to attend the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 16-23 September 2021

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is visiting New York between 16-23 September 2021 to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and to inaugurate the Turkish House, the prestige Project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.

On 17 September, Minister Çavuşoğlu started his intense diplomatic traffic in New York, with the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Annual Ministerial Meeting.

Minister Çavuşoğlu pointed out that combating underdevelopment should be the priority of the international community and that we would continue to support the development efforts of LDCs in line with our humanitarian foreign policy.

Later that day, Minister Çavuşoğlu met with Foreign Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris of Sri Lanka and underlined that despite the geographical distance we were fully committed to developing our relations.

Then Minister Çavuşoğlu had a meeting with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, where global challenges the world is facing were discussed and where Minister Çavuşoğlu shared our views on Cyprus, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and climate change.

Finally, Minister Çavuşoğlu met with Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, congratulated him for succeeding to Ambassador Volkan Bozkir, the President of the 75th UN General Assembly, and stated that we would continue to support the work of the UN.

On 19 September 2021, Minister Çavuşoğlu consulted as usual with Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) ahead of the UNGA meetings,.

Minister Çavuşoğlu noted that sovereign equality and equal international status were inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriot people, and that we would continue to stand shoulder to shoulder.

On the same day, Minister Çavuşoğlu had a productive meeting with Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi of Indonesia, whom we would host in Turkey the following month.

Minister Çavuşoğlu expressed that we would further strengthen our bilateral relations in every field, and that we were in close cooperation with Indonesia at UN, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), D8 and MIKTA.