Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides in Cairo today, according to the State Information Service (SIS). The two will discuss their tripartite cooperation agreement with Greece over energy resource development in the East Mediterranean. The two countries are working on connecting Cyprus’ Aphrodite gas field to one of Egypt’s two liquefaction plants in Idku and Damietta. Apart from gas, energy talks are likely to encompass electricity grid connection projects as Cyprus, Egypt and Greece approved routes for linking up their power grids — a USD 4 bn project.

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