Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Lithuania, Denmark, Turkey, Greece, Germany, France, Austria and Belgium in Genval, near Brussels. All meetings focused on Bulgaria`s bid for non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council in the context of its competition with Belarus and in light of the presidential elections in Belarus on 9 September. Passy reached agreement with Turkish chief diplomat Ismail Cem and Greek Foreign Minister Yeoryios Papandreou that the trilateral meetings of the foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria will continue.