Christodoulides says he will attend COP31 summit in Antalya

Greek Cypriot administration leader Nikos Christodoulides said yesterday that he will attend the UN Climate Change Conference COP31, scheduled for November in Antalya. Asked by journalists after a leaders' meeting with Turkish Cypriot President Tufan Erhürman whether he would attend the Antalya summit, he replied, "Of course I will."

Christodoulides said he was prepared for any development at the summit, though he did not rule out unfavourable surprises. Fileleftheros newspaper reported that the Turkish side could make a "surprise" at the COP31 summit, held from 9 to 20 November, and that Ankara could bring Erhürman to Antalya.

According to Haravgi, Christodoulides said he had no information that Libya had protested Greek activities south of Crete. He declined to assess whether these developments could affect the Great Sea Interconnector cable project between Greece and southern Cyprus. He repeated that the Turkey-Libya memorandum is "an illegal agreement that produces no legal consequences."