Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides jetted off to Egypt today to join a crunch trilateral summit with his Greek and Egyptian counterparts, as the three Mediterranean allies look to tighten their grip on a region rocked by turmoil.
The high-profile gathering, kicking off at 1pm local time in the historic town of El Alamein, brings together Christodoulides, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for crunch talks on regional security.
A government spokesman revealed the leaders would zero in on the latest developments across the wider region, while thrashing out ways to deepen cooperation between the three nations — a strategic trio in a part of the world of huge geopolitical importance.
Once the talks wrap up, all three leaders are expected to front the media and deliver statements on the outcome of the summit.
But before the main event, Christodoulides was set for a one-on-one sit-down with Sisi — a bilateral meeting seen as laying the groundwork for the wider discussions.
The Cypriot leader did not travel alone. He was flanked on the trip by Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, government spokesman Constantinos Letymbiotis, and a team of senior officials, underlining the importance Nicosia is placing on the alliance.
The summit marks the latest in a series of high-level meetings between the three countries, who have increasingly banded together amid shifting power dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean.
