Mitsotakis, Christodoulides, Macron to meet in New York

The leaders of Cyprus, France and Greece will meet in New York next week to discuss the Israel-Cyprus-Greece power grid connection and developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus' government spokesman said Saturday.

In a written statement, spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said that Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, discussed recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and the power grid project, known as the Great Sea Interconnector, over the phone Saturday.

The two leaders expressed their shared worries over a likely further deterioration of the situation on the ground in the Middle East and discussed ways to de-escalate.

The two also discussed the Great Sea Interconnector and its importance in implementing the European Union's energy strategy.

The project, which recently overcame some...