This Friday the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place on the Seine. People flock to the French capital and among them many heads of state. They are also invited, great personalities, by the International Olympic Committee under the pyramid of the Louvre for an extraordinary dinner this Thursday evening. This meal has been a tradition since the 2014 Sochi Games. Elysia wants to make it a “diplomatic moment”.
The dinner will be “orchestrated” by Alain Ducasse. The chef is used to prestigious meals: he organized the one between François Hollande and Xi Jinping at Versailles in 2014, between Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin in the same place in 2017 or even the one between Trump and Macron at the Eiffel Tower , the same year. The dinner will be preceded by the “Sports and Sustainable Development” summit also at the Louvre, which aims, according to the Elysée, to highlight “the importance of sport as an agent of progress”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden will probably not be there since they met this Thursday in Washington. But the US president’s wife and Israeli President Isaac Herzog could also be present after confirming their presence at the opening ceremony that will take place the following day.
Although Vladimir Putin was not invited, the Chinese president received an invitation but preferred to send his vice president Han Zheng to the opening ceremony, who could therefore attend the dinner. In the same case will be the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Argentine President Javier Milei and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro. , according to Le Parisien. British Princess Anne, sister of King Charles III, and Prince Albert of Monaco have been in the capital since Monday. Several thousand police and gendarmes will be mobilized to ensure the travel and safety of heads of state.
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