Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas departed on Sunday, 8 May, for Amman, where a meeting of the Greek-Jordanian Joint Interministerial Committee (JIC) is taking place on 9 and 10 May, within the framework of the Foreign Ministry activities planned for 2016. Mr. Mardas is being accompanied by a business mission organized by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry.
Within the framework of the Foreign Ministry’s planning for May 2016, four JICs will be convened and Greece will participate in two international meetings of economic interest.
Specifically, Mr. Mardas, as the co-chair of the Greek-Russia JIC, will meet with the Russian co-chair and Transport Minister, Maksim Sokolov, on 12 and 13 May, in Thessaloniki.
On 18 and 19 May, Mr. Mardas will be in Berlin, accompanied by a group of representatives of Greece’s business-sector agencies, to participate in a Conference on “Connectivity for Commerce and Investments,” which is taking place within the framework of Germany’s OSCE chairmanship.
On 20 and 21 May, Mr. Mardas will be in Doha, Qatar, where he will address the World Economic Forum. He will then co-chair Greece’s JIC meetings with Korea (23 May), Azerbaijan (26-27 May) and China (30 May), all of which are being held in Athens.
These activities are being carried out within the framework of the economic diplomacy planning for 2016. The relevant planning includes the convening of 13 JICs and a total of 16 business missions. It should be noted that only three JICs were convened from June 2013 to January 2015.
May 9, 2016