The European Council meeting in Brussels next Monday and Tuesday is the most important activity of President Nicos Anastasiades for the coming week.
The agenda of the Extraordinary Summit includes Ukraine, the global energy crisis on the basis of the European Commission's recent RePowerEU package, European Defence and Security and food security in the EU in the light of the war in Ukraine.
President Anastasiades is expected to brief EU Heads of State on the new Turkish challenges in the Famagusta region. He will ask his counterparts to call on Turkey to show restraint by avoiding tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean region by abandoning its expansionist policy.
The President of the Republic will reiterate that Famagusta belonged and will belong to its rightful owners and inhabitants, stressing that Turkey's unacceptable actions and claims will not be accepted. In this direction, he proposed the implementation of Confidence Building Measures, which are expected to assist the effort to resume negotiations.
From Brussels, President Anastasiades will travel to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to participate in the proceedings of the Congress of the European People's Party, which will take place on 31 May and 1 June. During the Congress the election of the new President of the EPP will take place. It will be another good opportunity for President Anastasiades to meet and inform his interlocutors about the positions of the Republic of Cyprus on both the Cyprus problem and the issues of concern to the European Union. In particular, during the plenary session on 1 June he will have the opportunity to update on the latest developments on the Cyprus problem, including his initiatives to break the deadlock, his assessment of developments in Ukraine and other issues on the European agenda, notably the energy and food crisis.
President Anastasiades will return to Cyprus next Wednesday, 1 June.
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