PM Tsipras in Israel
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
A number of meetings at the highest level are scheduled during Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' visit to Israel and Palestine on Wednesday and Thursday.
The prime minister's itinerary includes a brief tour of the Holocaust Monument on Wednesday morning, where he will lay a wreath, followed by a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and a joint press conference. Tsipras and Netanyahu will then retire for a meeting without delegations.
At 16:00 on Wednesday he will meet the leader of Israel's main opposition Labour Party leader Yitzhak Herzog and then meet with the Labour Party's youth group. At 18:00 on Wednesday he is scheduled to meet a non-governmental organisation and at 20:00 with Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Yuval Stenitz.
The following morning at 10:00, Tsipras is to be received by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
He will then visit a centre run by Jerusalem's Greek community and depart for Ramallah at 12:10, where he will lay a wreath at the Yasser Arafat Mausoleum at 12:50.
Talks between the Greek and Palestinian Authority delegations will begin at 13:00, in the presence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. A meeting between Tsipras and Abbas will follow, after which they will make statements to the Greek and Palestinian media.
A dinner in honour of the Greek prime minister will then be held at the presidential mansion.
Tsipras will depart for Jerusalem in the afternoon, where he will meet Jerusalem Patriarch Theophilos at 16:15 and visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He will then return to Athens on Thursday night.
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