Today and tomorrow, the Rome Conference for the Recovery of Ukraine is taking place in a region of Rome. One hundred delegations of states, forty international organizations and over two thousand businesses will be present.

Our country is represented by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Haris Theocharis. German Chancellor Friedrich Murch, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and many other leaders.

Brief bilateral meetings are expected to take place on the sidelines, and conference participants are scheduled to connect, via videoconference, with French President Emanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer and the entire “Alliance of the Willing”, which is meeting in London. The main subject of all this discussion will be the assistance to the Ukrainian army to maintain the country’s defence capability.

The main objective of the Rome conference is also to continue the broad mobilization of governments, the private sector, international organizations and civil society to support Kiev and to implement reconstruction when the war is over.

Alongside the political meetings, contacts will be held in the Eternal City to develop joint cooperation projects on behalf of companies operating in the infrastructure, energy, agriculture, health and construction sectors.

Companies from Ukraine and from dozens of other countries today and tomorrow are to make contact with the Ukrainian local government and its central administration, with an eye on the “next day” when the country can return to a normal daily routine.

“We want to help Ukraine to rebuild, contributing to its reform programme and to its path to joining the European Union. We will do everything possible to turn the Rome Conference into a springboard for peace, thanks also to more substantial economic investments,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.