Egypt has announced the list of leaders attending the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit, set to take place tomorrow, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump co-chairing the event.
More than 20 countries are expected to participate.
Presidential, king, and emir-level attendees include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, French President Emmanuel Macron, and the leader of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides.
Germany, Iraq, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Greece, Armenia, Hungary, Pakistan, Canada, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait will be represented at prime minister level. Senior international officials, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, European Council President Antonio Costa, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and Japan’s ambassador to Cairo Fumio Iwai, will also attend.
The summit follows recent negotiations on Gaza, where a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement was approved by Israel and Hamas on 9 October. The agreement took effect early on 10 October with the Israeli government’s approval.
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