27.11.2019 İstanbul
Turkey-EU GCC Co-Chairs M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and Panagiotis Gkofas agreed that the first meeting of Turkey-EU JCC 2020 should be held in Turkey.
The
Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey President and Co-Chairman
of the Turkish Wing of the Turkey-EU Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) M.
Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, and Panagiotis Gkofas, Co-Chairman of the EU Wing, met at
a working dinner in İstanbul last night. Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador
Faruk Kaymakçı attended part of the dinner.
Turkey-EU
GCC Co-Chairs, who met for the first time after the Turkey-EU Joint
Consultative Committee meeting in April 2019, discussed developments in Turkey
and the EU, Turkey-EU relations and Turkey-EU GCC 2020 program. The working
dinner emphasized the importance of dialogue between Turkey and the EU as well
as the constructive and bridge-building role of the JCC, which brings together
Turkey and EU NGOs.
Consensus
was also reached between the Co-Chairs on the march of the first meeting of
Turkey-EU GCC 2020.