Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Nicosia on Wednesday for the second Intergovernmental Summit of Greece-Cyprus and for the Trilateral Summit of Greece-Cyprus-Jordan.
The second Intergovernmental Summit of Greece-Cyprus - the first was held last November in Athens marks the strengthening of the cooperation between the two countries, as well as its deepening and expansion in a number of areas, beyond foreign policy, where the cooperation and coordination between Athens and Nicosia is permanent.
Defence, energy, environment, health, education, culture, digital policy, research-innovation-technology, labour and social security, rule of law, justice, economy, social policy, shipping are the areas of cooperation that will be discussed by the competent ministers of Greece and Cyprus
The Summit will be chaired by the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic of Cyprus. The developments in the Cyprus issue will also be discussed, following the mobility at the level of the UN Secretary General and the informal Christodoulidis-Tatar dinner under the UN Secretary General last October in New York.
Government sources report that Kyriakos Mitsotakis will repeat that for Greece the solution to the Cyprus problem can only be based on the framework of the UN and the decisions of the UN Security Council.
After the Intergovernmental Conference of Greece-Cyprus, the Trilateral Summit of Greece-Cyprus-Jordan will follow at a critical juncture for developments in the Middle East.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Nikos Christodoulidis and King Abdullah of Jordan are expected to send a message about the need for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East and the importance of trilateral cooperation for stability in the wider region. It is reminded that King Abdullah of Jordan also participated in the MED9 Summit last October in Paphos.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will also attend together with the President of the Republic of Cyprus and they will speak at the 2nd Cyprus-Greece Business Forum in Nicosia which is organized with the aim of creating stronger channels of communication and cooperation between the two countries, both at an institutional and economic level.