Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday met with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York.
The meeting took place at the newly inaugurated Turkevi Center, or Turkish House, in Manhattan across the UN headquarters, attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s Ambassador to UN Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Volkan Bozkır, the president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly.
Erdoğan and Guterres discussed developments in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan as well as the Cyprus issue, according to a UN statement.
Earlier, Guterres attended the inauguration ceremony of the 36-story skyscraper.
The UN chief said it was an “enormous pleasure” to attend the inauguration of the new Turkevi Center which houses the UN permanent mission of Turkey, the Turkish Consulate General as well as the representation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).