Maria Panagiotou

Maria Panagiotou is the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Cyprus, who has recently been in the news for condemning Turkey's systematic exclusion of Cyprus from the preparatory processes for COP31, the UN Climate Conference. During a press conference, she highlighted the unacceptable nature of this exclusion, especially given Cyprus's current presidency of the EU Council, which places it in a key role for coordinating European preparations for international climate negotiations.