Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, has invited Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to visit Australia.

The invitation was extended during a dinner hosted at the NATO Summit in Madrid, where the Greek prime minister met with foreign leaders including US President Joe Biden, French president Emmanuel Macron and British prime minister, Boris Johnson, it was reported in AMNA .

“Leaders have gathered for the NATO summit in Madrid to promote peace and security,” Mr Albanese posted on Twitter earlier today.

“We are united against Russia’s invasion which is causing devastation in Ukraine and adding to rising cost of living pressures around the world.”

Mr Mitsotakis is set to have a bilateral meeting today with his British counterpart, as well as Mr Albanese and the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinta Ardern, where he will discuss issues of interest, including the Greek element in these countries.

Meanwhile, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to meet the US president Mr Biden, where he will say that he has no intention of holding talks with Mr Mitsotakis.

“A bilateral meeting with Mitsotakis is not possible. I have said so before, which means that you are not paying attention to what we are saying,” Erdogan said before leaving for the Spanish capital.

Speaking on the possibility of reopening communications with Athens amid mounting tensions, the Turkish President said: “That door has closed until they get their act together and when they do, then we can clarify the roadmap and to what extent meetings can take place.”

On Tuesday evening (local time) Turkey retracted its threat to veto the applications of Sweden and Finland to join NATO and agreed to support their bids for membership.

Spain’s King Felipe, right, poses for a family photo with U.S. President Joe Biden, center, Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev, left, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa pose for a group photo before a gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state will meet for a NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

After four hours of talks between the leaders of the three nations, the secretary-general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg told reporters: “we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO.”

Sweden and Finland made the decision to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Erdogan had threatened to veto Sweden and Finland’s application over a series of issues. One being an arms embargo the two Nordic states placed on Turkey over its incursion into Syria to fight the Kurdish YPG militia in 2019 and another being the extraditions of Kurdish figures who had sought asylum in Finland and Sweden.

Mr Stoltenberg said the terms of the deal involved Sweden and Finland lifting their restrictions on selling weapons to Turkey and Sweden intensifying work on Turkish extradition requests of suspected militants.

A Turkish statement said the four-way agreement reached on Tuesday meant Sweden and Finland were “demonstrating solidarity with Turkey in the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations”.