Government Spokesman Nikos Christodoulides departed on Wednesday for the United States, where he is having a series of contacts with UN and US officials, and other stakeholders.
According to an official announcement, while in New York, Christodoulides will meet, inter alia, with Jeffrey Feltman, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Edmond Mulet, the Chief of Staff to UN Secretary-General.
He will also attend a Harvard Club event, organized by the Foreign Policy Association, on “Cyprus Today and the Eastern Mediterranean”.
The Spokesman will then go to Washington to meet with Rachel van Elkan from the IMF, and Phil Kosnett and Mark Libby from the State Department. He will also have a tête-à-tête with Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
While in the US capital, Christodoulides will attend the AJC Global Forum together with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. He will also address cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean, during an AJC dinner.
On June 7, the Government Spokesman will attend the 32nd annual conference of PSEKA, the International Coordinating Committee “Justice For Cyprus”, and a day later he will meet with US Senators, Anna Makanju, the Special Advisor for Europe and Eurasia at Office of the Vice President and Mark Shapiro, a foreign-policy adviser.
Finally, Christodoulides will meet with Amos Hochstein, the Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department, Damon Wilson from the Atlantic Council and US congressmen. The Government Spokesman will depart from the US to Cyprus on June 10.
