Day: June 15, 2021

Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, informed, on Tuesday, Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, during a telephone conversation about the discussion he had in Brussels with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Anastasiades thanked Mitsotakis for the positions he put forward during the meeting as regards the Cyprus problem.

Cyprus Government Spokesman, Kyriacos Koushos, said in a written statement that the Greek Prime Minister contacted Anastasiades by phone on Tuesday and briefed him about his discussion with the Turkish President during their meeting.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

The UK Foreign Minister for the European Neighbourhood Wendy Morton has rejected any suggestion of direct flights to the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus being authorised by the British government.

“In line with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ as an independent state, and Ercan airport in the north of Cyprus is not recognised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation as an international airport. As a result, we cannot negotiate an Air Services Agreement with the administration in the north of Cyprus, so there are no direct flights,” was Mrs Morton’s response to a relevant parliamentary question.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

The Foreign Ministers of Greece and Cyprus had a telephone conversation on Tuesday morning.

As Nikos Dendias said in a tweet, the discussion concerned the Cyprus problem and Euro-Turkish relations. “In a telephone conversation with the Foreign Minister of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, we discussed the Cyprus problem and Euro-Turkish relations”, the Greek Foreign Minister said.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades has sent his warmest congratulations to Israel for forming a government, noting he looks forward to closely working together in furthering the rock-solid Cyprus-Israel strategic partnership.

The President wrote in his twitter account “my warmest congratulations to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate PM/FM Yair Lapid for forming a government. Looking forward to closely working together in furthering the rock-solid Cyprus-Israel strategic partnership to the advantage of our region and beyond”

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides sent on Monday his warmest congratulations to Yair Lapid on assuming his duties as Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Cyprus’ Ministry of Health recalled on Tuesday the measures taken to limit the possibility of coronavirus variants entering the country in view of the increase of passengers for the summer season.

In a press release it says that countries are listed in green, orange, red and grey categories according to their epidemiological data. For the grey category countries, entry into the Republic of Cyprus is only allowed for specific categories of passengers.

To enter Cyprus one must either present a vaccination certificate (completion of the vaccination scheme and two weeks after the last dose) or present a negative PCR test.

It says that for arrivals from India (grey category), and due to the extremely aggravated epidemiological situation due to the In

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Cyprus` Ministry of Health recalled on Tuesday the measures taken to limit the possibility of coronavirus variants entering the country in view of the increase of passengers for the summer season.

In a press release it says that countries are listed in green, orange, red and grey categories according to their epidemiological data. For the grey category countries, entry into the Republic of Cyprus is only allowed for specific categories of passengers.

Source: Cyprus News Agency