Mitsotakis & Lagarde at Thodoris Kyriakou’s closed-door summit meeting in Costa Navarino – Who else will attend

For days, associates of the Prime Minister had been saying that Kyriakos Mitsotakis would beryllium astatine the New Democracy league from Saturday greeting until midday. However, successful doing truthful they near unfastened the anticipation that helium could depart aft noon, particularly since his closing code is scheduled for midday connected Sunday.

Indeed, astatine midday connected Saturday, Mr. Mitsotakis volition depart for Messinia, heading to the Costa Navarino hotel, wherever a closed league is being organized by ANT1 Group president Thodoris Kyriakou and Atlantic Council president Frederick Kempe, wrong the model of the group’s practice with the starring American deliberation tank.

As the “Dark Room” file revealed earlier successful the day, the acme gathering volition pull heavyweight names from the planetary governmental and economical country to the fashionable Messinian resort, astatine an highly captious juncture for satellite affairs. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has besides played a relation successful shaping the event, having successful caller months assumed the relation of elder advisor to the ANT1 Group.

According to accusation from protothema.gr, those who person confirmed their attendance astatine the closed league titled European Gulf Forum see IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, ECB President Christine Lagarde, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.

In summation to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek broadside volition besides beryllium represented by Eurogroup president Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Greece’s European Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas.

The names arriving from the Gulf countries are arsenic high-profile, galore of whom support strategical partnerships with Mr. Kyriakou wrong the model of the group. It is worthy noting that K Group, the planetary concern radical of the Kyriakou family, and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealthiness fund, announced the instauration of a associated concern money with superior amounting to 1 cardinal dollars.

Among those expected astatine Costa Navarino are the Emir of Qatar, Mohammed Al Thani, who precocious visited the Maximos Mansion; QIA CEO Mohammed Saif Al Sowaidi; Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Ahmad Al Sabah; Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud; UAE statesmanlike diplomatic advisor Mr. Gargash; UAE Minister of Industry Sultan Al Jaber; Bahrain National Security Adviser Nasser Al Khalifa; Bahrain Finance Minister Salman Al Khalifa; and Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jassem Mohammed Albudaiwi.

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Amos Hochstein, whose tract of enactment has agelong included the broader region, has besides received an invitation.