A two-day quadrilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Nikos Christodoulides, Nikos Dendias, Gabi Ashkenazi, and Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, respectively – will be held on Friday and Saturday in Paphos, Cyprus, ANA reports.
The UAE foreign minister will participate via video conference and his representative at the in-person meetings will be Anwar Gargash, a former UAE state minister for foreign affairs who is currently the diplomatic advisor of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed.
It is the first joint meeting of the four countries’ foreign ministers and is made possible by the recent normalisation of relations between Israel and the UAE.
It aims to capitalize on the prospects arising as a result of this development, for the further broadening of regional cooperation networks based on a positive agenda, in order to promote peace, stability, and security in the wider region.
The ministers will hold broader discussions with the participation of their official delegations on targeted proposals for promoting cooperation between the four countries and others, in specific areas such as managing the pandemic and its repercussions on economic cooperation, energy, tourism and crisis management, as well as increasing exchanges of young people and between academic and research institutions.
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