Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met in Nicosia on Wednesday.

The Greek Prime Minister said that the Turkish state continues to pursue its "imperialist fantasies combined with aggressive actions from Syria to Libya, from Somalia to Cyprus, and in the Aegean Sea and the Caucasus."

In a joint statement Cyprus, Greece and Cyprus condemned the Turkish provocations in Egypt, Libya and Syria, as well as in the Eastern Mediterranean waters.

Mitsotakis drew attention to the "invalid agreement" between Ankara and the Tripoli government.

At the end of 2019, the Turkish state signed an agreement with the predominantly Muslim Brotherhood government in Tripoli regarding maritime borders. Using this agreement, Ankara claims rights over large areas in the Eastern Mediterranean.

For his part, Egyptian president, al-Sisi said, said that the agreements defining maritime borders reflected the will to benefit from “wealth available, especially promising oil and gas reserves.”

He added: "We agreed on the need to address those escalatory policies that destabilize the region, and the need to coordinate with international partners to take appropriate measures to maintain regional security requirements."

Anastasiadis stressed that "Turkey is violating stability with a series of illegal actions". Turkey has been under its military control of Northern Cyprus since 1974 and the fate of Varosha has been key in all peace negotiations since then.

Anastasiadis said that the three countries "call upon Turkey to permanently abstain from such actions in the future, thus contributing to create the conditions for dialogue, which cannot be carried out in an aggressive environment or under the threat of using force".

Greece is seeking for a clear EU response to the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean, and claims that the benevolent approach and dialogue "have not worked with Turkey, which persists in its bully-dog attitude".

In a letter, Greek foreign minister, Nikos Dendias, told the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, that Turkey's continuing belligerent stance must spur European solidarity.

"Dialogue and a benevolent approach to differences are the European tools and have been used repeatedly with Ankara so far", wrote Dendias adding that "when the existing rules do not serve its aims, Turkey unilaterally creates new rules following the logic that the other parties bow to the pressure."