The EU Foreign Ministers will discuss EU-Turkey relations during a working lunch with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to be held on Thursday, in the framework of the Ministers' informal meeting (Gymnich) in Brussels. Peter Stano, EEAS and Commission spokesperson, said on Tuesday that relations with Cyprus is an important part of EU - Turkey relations, and that the discussion with Turkey is expected to cover a series of issues where interests 'either converge or overlap.' Cyprus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantinos Kombos traveled to Brussels on Wednesday to attend the informal meeting. Turkey aspires to join the EU and its participation in the meeting comes after a five year hiatus. The Ministers will exchange views on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine with the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba, followed by an update on the current developments in Venezuela. The meeting will conclude with a discussion on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, in the presence of the Special Coordinator of the United Nations Organization for Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction in Gaza, Sigrid Kaag. Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Thursday, on the sidelines of the informal meeting. According to Greek diplomatic sources, Euro-Turkish relations, the Cyprus issue and Greek-Turkish relations will be inter alia on the agenda of the meeting, that will take place in view of a meeting which the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis will have with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in September, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. "It is particularly significant that after 5 years a Turkish Foreign Minister will participate in the lunch taking place in the framework of the informal meeting. This is because it gives us the opportunity to raise, before the Foreign Ministers of the European Union, the issues that concern us," the same sources said. Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey i nvaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana ended inconclusively. Source: Cyprus News Agency