Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades departs on Sunday for Egypt to attend the country`s elected President Abdel Fattach al Sisi’s swearing-in ceremony, Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides announced on Friday.
In statements to the press, Christodoulides said that President Anastasiades will attend the ceremony at the invitation of the new Egyptian government. Christodoulides highlighted the fact that an extremely limited number of heads of states have been invited, namely, the heads of the Security Council member-states, the c o u n t r y p r e s i d i n g t h e C o u n c i l of the EU and the heads of the Arab states and the Republic of Cyprus.
“The invitation is considered as a proof of the upgraded bilateral relations between Cyprus and Egypt and the role Cyprus could play in the region,” he concluded