Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will travel to Croatia on Thursday to attend the Informal Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Member States of the European Union ("Gymnich"). The meeting will start with the foreign ministers' working lunch on EU-Russia relations. EU-Turkey relations will then be discussed in the light of the conclusions of the Foreign Affairs Council last July and November.

On Friday, following Dendias' request, an Extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council will convene on the situation at the Euro-Turkish border in response to Turkey's decision to open its borders.