Mitsotakis addresses 81st UN General Assembly

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the 81st General Assembly of the United Nations on Friday, September 25, 2026, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office at primeminister.gr. At the beginning of his address, as the statement notes, the prime minister stated: “It is a great honor for me to address the General Assembly.” According to the same text, the address covered a series of topics on the international agenda, from multilateral diplomacy and maritime security to the Cyprus issue, the Middle East, Ukraine, Sudan and the dangers associated with the regulation and use of artificial intelligence. The address is part of the annual series of interventions by heads of state and government before the General Assembly, within the framework of this year’s session of the organization. The available statement does not include the full text of the address, but only a record of the thematic sections covered during it.

Among the international issues which, according to the statement, were addressed in the speech were the situation in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine and the crisis in Sudan, three issues that are at the center of the international agenda at this year’s session of the General Assembly. The statement also notes that the address included reference to multilateral diplomacy, as a framework for managing international crises and cooperation between states. However, it does not clarify what specific positions the prime minister articulated on each of the above issues, nor does it mention policy proposals, numerical data, timelines or specific references to other countries and leaders beyond what is explicitly included in the statement itself from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Within the same framework, according to the statement, the address referred to the Cyprus issue and maritime security, two matters that directly concern Greece and the wider region. The annual high-level session of the UN General Assembly is generally the forum where heads of government articulate their national positions before the international community, and Greece has repeatedly raised issues of international maritime law and the Cyprus issue at this forum. Beyond this general observation, the Prime Minister’s Office statement provides no details regarding the content of what was said about these two matters during the address of September 25, 2026, nor does it mention whether specific initiatives, negotiations or other countries were referenced in relation to them.

In the list of topics which, according to the statement, the address covered are also included the dangers from the regulation and use of artificial intelligence, an issue which has emerged in recent years as a subject of discussion in international forums and at UN sessions. The statement from primeminister.gr, on which the present report is based exclusively, is limited to a record of the thematic sections of the address and does not include detailed positions, policy proposals, numerical data or excerpts beyond the one sentence quoted above. No other details about the content of the reference to artificial intelligence are available at present. For more information about Greek political affairs, readers can refer to the sections Greece and Politics.