Day: October 25, 2021

The Health Ministry in Cyprus announced on Monday a new categorisation of countries based on their epidemiological data, to come into effect Thursday, 28th October with six countries changing category.

Lichtenstein moves from Green to Orange Category while South Korea moves up to Orange from Red.

Iceland, Poland and the Netherlands have dropped to the Red category from Orange.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Foreign Minister of Greece Nikos Dendias and the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have signed a Strategic Bilateral Framework during a meeting at the Foreign Office. Dendias and Truss discussed various issues, including the Cyprus issue, the Balkans and issues relating to the Law of the Sea, he said in statements after the meeting.

The new framework aims to boost trade, security and digital cooperation between the two countries.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan and President of the House of Representatives of Cyprus Annita Demetriou expressed their mutual support to the Cyprus issue and the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh in their statements after their meeting on Monday.

Simonyan, who is paying an official visit to Cyprus, expressed his satisfaction with the two countries` cooperation in international fora and said that they attached special importance to the cooperation of the two parliaments in the international interparliamentary framework.

He noted that during the meeting they placed special emphasis on the immediate start of the tripartite framework of parliamentary cooperation between Greece, Armenia and Cyprus.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, and Thessaloniki Mayor, Konstantinos Zervas, referred to the fraternal links between Cyprus and Thessaloniki and Macedonia in general, during a meeting they had on Monday.

Zervas welcomed Anastasiades at Thessaloniki Town Hall. Anastasiades was accompanied by his spouse and the members of the Cypriot delegation, while the municipality`s band paid honour.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

The Deputy Ministry for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy aims to bring the state and state services to a mobile phone screen or a computer monitor, Deputy Minister Kyriacos Kokkinos has said.

“We are only in the beginning, we have a huge amount of work before us but with confidence and the experience we’ve gained the effort will be easier,” Kokkinos said on Monday briefing the parliamentary committee on Finance and Budgetary Affairs on the Deputy Ministry’s €118-million budget for 2022.

Kokkinos said that the existence of the Deputy Ministry amid the pandemic was decisive in tackling the Covid crisis, recalling that a total of 1.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades reiterated his political will for a peaceful, honest, functional, and viable solution of the Cyprus problem, in a speech at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, clarifying, however, that a solution contrary to the High Level Agreements, UN Resolutions, and the European acquis is unacceptable.

Speaking at an event organised by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Cyprus, on Cyprus` contribution to the Greek Revolution of 1821, Anastasiades stressed his “political will and determination to move forward to a peaceful, honest, functional and viable solution to the Cyprus problem”. However, he stressed that “we will not accept conditions and demands that will lead to a solution contrary to the High Level Agreements, UN Resolutions, and the European acquis, making the Republic of Cyprus subser

Source: Cyprus News Agency