President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to New York to address the 81st United Nations General Assembly, with a full schedule of meetings including the UN Secretary-General, heads of state and government, and the leaders of international organisations and multinational companies. He will also meet representatives of the Cypriot diaspora.
Christodoulides will begin his engagements on the evening of Sunday, September 20, meeting the heads of diaspora organisations to brief them on developments in the Cyprus problem.
On September 21, he will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II at 1.15pm New York time, and in the afternoon will take part in a summit on multilateralism, international law, peace and prosperity, co-organised by European Council President António Costa and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
On Tuesday, September 22, he will attend the opening of the General Assembly’s plenary session, at which the UN Secretary-General will present his report on the organisation’s work. In the afternoon, Christodoulides will meet Javier La Rosa, head of Chevron’s base assets and emerging countries department, and at 6pm that day will meet Maria Angela Holguin, the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for the Cyprus problem.
On Wednesday, September 23, at around 12.30pm, Christodoulides will address the UN General Assembly’s plenary session. Later that day, he will take part in a high-level summit on climate change convened by the UN Secretary-General, where he will deliver an intervention, and in the afternoon will meet ExxonMobil Vice-President John Ardill.
On the morning of Thursday, September 24, Christodoulides will attend a working breakfast organised by the Antenna Group and the Atlantic Council, on strengthening EU-Gulf cooperation for regional security and prosperity.
At 10.55am, he will meet UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the Secretary-General’s office in the UN building. He will then host a lunch for the permanent representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
On the morning of September 25, Christodoulides will meet Han Zheng, Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China, followed by representatives of the AJC.
Before leaving New York, he will attend a dinner held in his honour by Cypriot diaspora organisations.
Christodoulides will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, Government Spokesperson Constantinos Letymbiotis and negotiator Menelaos Menelaou, and will return to Cyprus on the night of September 26.
