President, Nikos Christodoulides travels to Cairo on Saturday afternoon, where he will attend the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
In a written statement, Government Spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said that “the President’s presence at the museum’s inauguration is a tangible recognition of both Egypt’s invaluable cultural wealth, which has influenced and inspired the wider region, and the deep and long-standing history that connects Cyprus and Egypt.”
At the same time, he pointed out, “it underscores the close, stable, and friendly ties that continue to characterize relations between the two countries.”
According to Letymbiotis, the new Grand Egyptian Museum, which stands next to the Pyramids of Giza, is an iconic project covering an area of approximately 500,000 square meters and houses more than 100,000 exhibits, narrating seven millennia of Egyptian history, from the Pharaonic period to the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
The President will be accompanied at the inauguration by the Government Spokesperson, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Dr. Vasiliki Kassianidou, the Director of the Diplomatic Office of the President of the Republic, Doros Venezis, and other officials.
President Christodoulides will return from Egypt on the evening of the same day.
On Sunday, he will attend his father’s memorial service at the Holy Church of Agios Spyridon in Geroskipou, the Spokesperson concluded.