Earlier, Nikos Dendias hosted a working lunch with the Egyptian Foreign Minister at a beach restaurant in the Greek capital.
After lunch at a beach restaurant in Athens, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias and their Egyptian counterpart Sameh Sukri traveled to Luxembourg, where they will participate in the 9th European Union-Egypt Association Council.
“With Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Sukri on the flight to Luxembourg, where we will participate in the 9th Meeting of the EU-Egypt Association Council,” N. Dendias pointed out in a Twitter post, quoting a relevant photo of the two ministers from the plane.
With the Foreign Minister of Egypt S.Shoukry on the flight to Luxembourg where we will participate in the 9th Meeting of the 🇪🇺-Σύν Association Council. With #Egypt FM #Sameh_Shoukry on our way to #Luxembourg to attend the 9th Meeting of the 🇪🇺-🇪🇬 Association Council pic.twitter.com/zOizc97C8J
– Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) June 19, 2022
Earlier, Nikos Dendias presented a working lunch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, at a beach restaurant in the Greek capital. Developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa were at the center of the two foreign ministers’ discussion.
I hosted #Egypt counterpart #Sameh_Shoukry for a working lunch in #Athens before traveling together to #Luxembourg to participate in today’s #EU–#Egypt Association Council. Discussion focused on developments in the #EasternMediterranean and #NorthAfrica. pic.twitter.com/iDWizp2Vm1
– Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) June 19, 2022
With regard to the EU-Egypt Association Council, its plenary agenda includes an exchange of views on the implementation and prospects of enhanced dialogue and co-operation within the EU priorities in Egypt, and the adoption of new EU space priorities in Egypt. 2021-2027.
Greece attaches great importance to the ever-developing EU-Egypt relations, a strategic partner of our country with a key role in the wider Mediterranean region, underlined in a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On Monday, the Foreign Minister will take part in the EU Foreign Affairs Council (EUSF), which will also take place in Luxembourg. Before the start of the Council’s work, Nikos Dendias will attend an informal working breakfast of the EU Foreign Ministers with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, with whom he is expected to discuss the action of the Red Cross in Ukraine.
The EU foreign ministers will then discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, developments in the Horn of Africa and Egypt, and exchange views with their Egyptian counterpart Sameh Sukri over an informal working lunch.
Recent developments, including the EU’s relations with the Gulf countries and Jordan, are expected to be examined under the heading “Current Affairs”.
Nikos Dendias is expected to inform, under this entry, about the continuing escalation of Turkish delinquency and provocation.
Finally, the Foreign Minister will brief his counterparts on his recent tour of the Western Balkans and the results of the recent South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Summit, which took place in Thessaloniki.
