Egyptian-Greek-Cypriot summit to be held soon: spokesperson

CAIRO - 2 May 2018: An Egyptian-Greek-Cypriot summit will be held in autumn in Athens, the Egyptian presidential spokesperson Bassam Radi said in a statement to MBC satellite channel on Tuesday.

Radi added that the trilateral summit will address means of enhancing bilateral cooperation in various domains, especially in the tourism and energy domains.

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has recently convened with his Greek and Cypriot counterparts; Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Nikos Anastasidis respectively, during the "Revival of Hellenism" week in Alexandria.

The talks tackled promoting trilateral cooperation in the natural gas domain, he said, noting that this cooperation will expand to include the European Union, thus qualifying Egypt to become a regional energy hub.