Cyprus Anastasiades to attend Nato dinner in Madrid next week
President Nicos Anastasiades will attend a dinner with EU and Nato leaders in Madrid next week, the government announced on Saturday.
According to a written statement by the Director of the Press Office of the president, Andreas Iosif, Anastasiades will travel to the Spanish capital on Tuesday, where the Nato summit will take place.
He will attend a dinner hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the sidelines of the summit for EU and Nato leaders, during which the president will make a speech.
The trip will give the president of the Republic the opportunity to meet bilaterally with foreign leaders and brief them on issues of concern to Cyprus, the main being the Cyprus problem, the announcement said.
“His proposal for the implementation of the confidence-building measures (CBMs) which will assist the whole process and the need for the Turkish side to abandon its provocative actions and intransigent stance will be at the centre of President Anastasiades’ contacts”, Iosif said.
The President will return to Cyprus on Thursday.
Next week, Anastasiades will also hold meetings with the UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča and the UN Special Representative and the Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus Colin Stewart.
The president’s schedule starts with the swearing-in ceremony of the new members of the Government will take place at the presidential palace at 9.30am on Monday.
Kyriakos Koushos will be appointed minister of labour and social insurance in place of the late Zeta Emilianidou. Petros Demetriou will be appointed deputy minister to the president and Pantelis Pantelidis will be appointed director of the office of the president.
This will be followed at 11.30am by a meeting with the Special
