At the opening of the summit of Med9 leaders, the Cypriot president discusses the “complicated situation” in the Middle East
“Just a stone’s throw from Cyprus, we have a war, we have a complicated situation”declared Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides at the opening of the Med9 leaders’ summit. This informal group brings together nine Mediterranean countries that are members of the European Union (EU). He is meeting in Cyprus to discuss, in the presence of the King of Jordan, Abdallah II, the crisis in the Middle East, in the face of which diplomacy appears powerless for the moment.
The Cypriot President thanked the Jordanian sovereign for his presence at this lunch of heads of state or government of the nine countries (France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia, as well as Portugal, represented by his Minister of Foreign Affairs), accompanied by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
On the menu, the ” reinforcement “ of the “strategic relationship” between Amman and the EU, before addressing the regional crisis more directly.
