[PIO] The Speaker of the House of Representatives Ms Anita Demetriou will participate in the 16th Conference of Presidents of the Parliaments of the

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Anita Demetriou, will travel to Luxembourg tomorrow, Saturday, to participate in the 16th Conference of Speakers of the Parliaments of the Smaller European States, hosted by the Parliament of Luxembourg, between 18 and 20 June 2023. The President of the House of Representatives will be accompanied by the Director General of the Parliament, Ms Tasoula Ieronymidou, and the Senior Official for International Relations, Ms Sophie Tsourei.

The parliaments of San Marino, Andorra, Iceland, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro and Monaco are participating in the Conference.

The topics that will be addressed at the Conference are the sustainability of tourism and the challenges and perspectives for small states, the challenges in the field of cybersecurity and the role of small European states in addressing the new threats to democratic institutions. The Conference will conclude with the adoption of a Joint Declaration.

In addition, the Presidents of Parliaments or their representatives will be received by the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, with whom they will visit tourism pavilions of the participating countries, which will operate in parallel with the Conference.

In the margins of the Conference, the President of the Parliament will hold separate meetings with the President of the Parliament of Monaco, Ms Brigitte Boccone-Pages, and the President of the Parliament of Liechtenstein, Mr Albert Frick. After the Conference, she will also have a meeting with the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Mr. Koen Lenaerts, in the presence of the Cypriot Members of the CJEU and the General Court of the EU, Mr. The President of the Parliament of Luxembourg, Mr. K. Lenaouira, Mr. Nikolay Lenaouira, Mr. Nikolay Nikolay Papasavvas, respectively, and will attend a working dinner hosted in her honour by the President of the Parliament of Luxembourg, Mr. Fernand Etgen.

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