Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias, Minister of National Defence Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos and Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis to visit Egypt (Cairo, 22.11.2022)

Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias, Minister of National Defence Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos and Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis will visit Egypt (Cairo) tomorrow, Tuesday, November 22, 2022, where they will hold meetings with their counterparts.

During their visit, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs will attend the signing ceremony of the “Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the Fields of Aeronautics and Maritime Search and Rescue” by the Minister of National Defence and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Zaki.  

Following the signing of the memorandum, the Greek and Egyptian Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence are expected to make brief joint statements to the press at approximately 14:15.

This will be followed by a joint working lunch.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias and Minister of National Defence Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos will then follow individual schedules of meetings with their counterparts Sameh Shoukry and Mohamed Zaki, respectively.

Regarding the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ schedule, Nikos Dendias will have a one-on-one meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, while expanded talks will also be held between the delegations of the two Foreign Ministries.  

Following the expanded talks, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis along with the Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Ambassador Ihab Nasr will sign an Agreement on the Employment of Seasonal Workers in the Agricultural Sector.

Joint statements to the press by the two Foreign Ministers will follow at approximately 17:00.

The above mentioned meetings are part of the strategic bilateral relations between Greece and Egypt, as well as of the regular contacts between the senior officials of the two countries.