President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades' programme for the coming period is heavy laden.
The meetings that the President of the Republic will have next week are particularly important for Cyprus' diplomatic relations and the role that our country plays as a member of the European Union, but also in the wider Eastern Mediterranean region.
On Monday, 4 April, the confirmation ceremony of RAEK member Neofytos Hadjigeorgiou will take place at the Presidential Palace. President Anastasiades will address the ceremony.
On 5 and 6 April, the President of the Republic will pay an official visit to Montenegro. He will have a meeting with the President of the country, Mr Milo Dukanovic, and a memorandum of cooperation between Cyprus and Montenegro in the maritime sector will be signed. During his meetings, President Anastasiades will refer to the friendly relations between the two countries and will stress the need to strengthen bilateral relations in the fields of economy and tourism. He will also provide information on the Cyprus problem, his proposal for the MEAs and the need to solve the problem on the basis of international law, Security Council resolutions and the European acquis.
Montenegro is an acceding country to the European Union and Cyprus supports its European perspective.
Montenegro is an acceding country to the European Union and Cyprus supports its European perspective. President Anastasiades will also brief his interlocutors in Montenegro on the illegal Turkish provocations in the Cypriot EEZ and in occupied Famagusta. The agenda of the meetings will certainly include developments in Ukraine.
On 7 April, President Anastasiades will receive the United States Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. The meeting comes just a few days after the President's meeting with US President Joe Biden in Brussels, on the sidelines of the European Council.
At the meeting with Mrs Nuland, the President is expected to analyse his proposal for the MoU and to refer to the readiness of the Greek Cypriot side to resume negotiations leading to a settlement of the Cyprus problem. American interest in the Cyprus problem and in developments in the wider Eastern Mediterranean region is a given. On Friday, 8 April, President Anastasiades will brief AHEPA on the Cyprus problem, energy developments and bilateral relations between Cyprus and the United States.
In the evening of the same day, he will attend the signing ceremony of the agreement between the Paphos Municipality and the American University of Beirut.
(PM/MG)
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