The Vice-President of the Commission, Margaritis Schinas, will represent the Commission at today’s Cairo Summit for Peace on developments in the Middle East.

For the EU, the possibility that tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees who want to leave the war-torn Gaza Strip will cross the Rafah in Egypt will likely constitute a new migration “challenge”.

The meeting will also be attended by the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who in the recent emergency teleconference of the European Council on the situation in the Middle East pointed out Greece’s concern about the consequences of the expansion of the crisis at the regional level and underlined the need for coordination of security services at European level.

Among others, the following will participate in the session:
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who on the sidelines of this session Fidan will also have bilateral contacts.
will attend the Middle East peace summit in Cairo
-Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
-Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
-King Abdullah of Jordan
-King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
-The Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Sabah
-The Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni
-The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez
– The president of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulidis
– South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
– Germany’s Foreign Minister Analena Berbock
-The Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Catherine Colonna.
-Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa
– British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley
-The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Mikhail Bogdanov
– Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Bart Eide
-China’s Middle East Special Envoy Zhai Jun
-The Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres
-The President of the European Council, Charles Michel
– The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell