The House of Representatives will host in Limassol, between March 16 and 19, an Extended Meeting of the International Secretariat, the Presidents and the Rapporteurs of the Committees of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (???), following an initiative of the head of the Cypriot delegation to the ???, Panikos Leonidou. The Extended Session, which will take place on Thursday, March 16, will be chaired by the Secretary General of the ??? Maximos Harakopoulos and will be attended by more than twenty MPs from fourteen Member Parliaments of the Assembly, mainly from the wider region of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean, a House of Representatives press release says. The Meeting will deal with issues related to the work and activities of the Assembly, in view of the upcoming 30th anniversary General Assembly of the ???, it adds. On Friday, March 17, the delegates will be received in Nicosia, by President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides, Archbishop of Cyprus Georgios and President of the House of Representatives Annita Demetriou and will have a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantinos Kombos. On Saturday, March 18, the House President will address an event in the Holy Metropolis of Limassol for the presentation of the IAO’s volume “Hagia Sophia: The Temples of the Wisdom of God around the World”. Distinguished academics were invited to participate as speakers at the event. The event will be attended by political and ecclesiastical officials, including MPs, members of the diplomatic corps, as well as representatives of other agencies and institutions.
Source: Cyprus News Agency