The President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr Nikos Christodoulides, will pay his first visit abroad after taking office on 13 and 14 March.
The President of the Republic, accompanied by his wife Mrs Philippa Karseras Christodoulides and members of the Cypriot delegation, will travel to Athens next Sunday, 12 March, where he will pay an official visit and have contacts with the country's top leadership.
President Christodoulides' official programme of contacts will begin on 13 March at 10.15am with the President laying a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square.
Subsequently, the President of the Republic will proceed to the Presidential Palace, where he will be officially received by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mrs. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who will award President Christodoulides with the Grand Cross of the Saviour, the highest decoration of the Order of the Saviour awarded to prominent personalities.
This will be followed by extended consultations between the delegations of the two countries. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, at the Maximos Mansion, with whom the President and the Prime Minister will hold extended talks, followed by statements by the President and the Prime Minister.
At 1.30pm, the President of the Republic and the Cypriot delegation will attend an official lunch hosted by President Sakellaropoulou at the Presidential Palace.
At 1.30pm, the President of the Republic and the Cypriot delegation will attend an official lunch hosted by President Sakellaropoulou at the Presidential Palace.
At 5pm on the same day, the President of the Republic will have a meeting in the Parliament with the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr Constantinos Tasoulas, who will present President Christodoulides with the gold medal of the Hellenic Parliament.
Afterwards, the President of the Republic will go to the War Museum, where at 6pm a ceremony will be held in honour of those who swore the "Oath of Athens" of 7 March 1953. On Tuesday, 14 March, the President of the Republic will have a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Mr. Nikos Dendias, while he will then have separate meetings with the heads of the parliamentary parties of Greece.
Specifically, at 8.20am, President Christodoulides will have a meeting with Mr. Dendias, at 9am with the President of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, at 9am.50am with the President of PASOK-Movement for Change Mr. Nikos Androulakis, at 10.25am with the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Greece Mr. Dimitris Koutsoubas, at 11am with the President of Hellenic Solution Mr. Kyriakos Velopoulos and at 11.35am with the Secretary of MPA25 Mr.
The President of the Republic will conclude his official visit to Greece with a meeting at 1pm with Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece at the Archdiocese of Athens.
The President of the Republic will be accompanied during his contacts in Athens by Foreign Minister Konstantinos Kombos, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letibiotis, Deputy Minister to the President Irini Piki, Ambassador of the Republic to Greece Mr. Kyriakos Kenevezos, the Director of the Office of the President of the Republic Mr. Charalambos Charalambous, the Director of the Diplomatic Office of the President of the Republic Ms. Marilena Raouna and officials.
In the margins of the President's visit, the Foreign Minister, the Government Spokesman, the Deputy Minister to the President and the Director of the President's Office will hold separate meetings with their Greek counterparts.
(RMMG)
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