Cyprus

When will Michalis Hatzigiannis take over the reins of the Ministry of Culture in Cyprus

How much natural gas has been discovered in the deposits, when they can be exploited and in what way? How will Nicosia move and what will Ankara’s reaction be?

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'Mitsotakis humiliated himself. He begged them in his speech to Congress not to give us the fighter jets, in a spirit that does not befit an allied country,'the Turkish foreign minister said.

With Ankara having resisted Kyiv’s pleas to close the Dardanelles to Russian ships and Greece having taken a hard line on sanctions,, Lavrov in the last week has twice referred to Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.”

'You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are the supreme symbol of nobility,' Melina Mercouri, who made the return of the Parthenon Marbles a life-long crusade, once told British authorities.

The bitter clashes of the past over harsh austerity imposed on Greece by Berlin is water under the bridge, and Greek-German relations have been at a very good level for the last six years, especially in the post-memorandum era and certainly on Mitsotakis’ watch.

'It is a Framework Agreement that will allow the deepening of our relations with a country with which we have centuries-old ties of friendship, that played a decisive role in achieving Greece’s independence, and with which we fought on the same side in two World Wars,' Dendias said.

Moscow also came out in favour of involving the permanent members of the UN Security Council - one of which is the UK, which is a guarantor power under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee and still maintains sovereign bases on the island.

The Commission's report on Turkey slammed Ankara’s partial re-opening of the seaside ghost town of Varosha in Cyprus, in violation of a series of UN Security Council resolutions

It is noted that these alliances – and the wider developments that deconstruct the Turkish narrative of the “Blue Homeland” – have irritated the Erdogan government, which once again resorts to distortion of reality and threats.

Anastasiades stressed the Greek Cypriots’ want to share the wealth from gas deposits with the Turkish Cypriots and if Ankara recognises the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia would disburse funds to the Turkish Cypriot side even before a final settlement.

'As a Greek of Constantinople [as Istanbul, my family and I have experienced the repercussions of being uprooted from the home of our forefathers,' the arcbishop stated.

For the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which has spiritual authority over the Church in America, Elpidophoros, 54, is the best and the brightest that it has to offer.

“Because the [Berlin] agreement provided for a rotating presidency, political equality, and a results-oriented approach, it satisfied those who really want a Cyprus settlement,” Akinci said.

Mitsotakis and Anastasiades discussed their next steps in coordinating a strategy to confront Ankara, including ongoing efforts to resume talks on a Cyprus settlement.

Close Greek-Cypriot co-ordination to address Turkish provocation expected to be at the heart of current contacts by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Nicosia

Efforts from various quarters to find proposals to bridge differences entail serious dangers, if one considers that there can be no compromise between proposals for a one-state and two-state solution.

The Turkish Foreign Minister talks to TO VIMA ahead of his meetings with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Dendias.

In order to persuade the EU of his putatively good intentions. Erdogan agreed to resume exploratory talks with Greece (that he had cut off in July, 2016) on 25 January.