November 20, 2015
By Vasudevan Sridharan
Cyprus, the closest European Union member (click here) state to Syria, has offered its airbase to France to pound Islamic State (Isis) targets in the region. The Mediterranean island is just 105km from Syria and officials said they will be happy to offer assistance to French forces.
The former British colony, already used by western powers for humanitarian missions, added that French authorities have not yet reached out to them to use the facilities. "I want to make clear that we will wait for the French authorities, if they want to ask [for] something from us, particularly our location and our facilities we would be very glad to provide them with this solidarity and assistance," Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides told reporters....
Americans don't think and dialogue about government instability. The only instability Americans worry about is that of Wall Street. Yet, the world is awash of waxing and waning instability every day.
November 19, 2015
By AP
Nicosia, Cyprus (AP) — Britain's foreign secretary (click here) says the world's "best brains" could be recruited to assist complex negotiations aimed at reunifying ethnically-split Cyprus.
Philip Hammond said after talks with his Cypriot counterpart on Thursday that these experts could also help in finding ways to financially support a peace deal.
Hammond said he's confident that the international community, including the European Union, will provide support to a negotiated settlement of the island's long-standing division.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup aiming to unite the island with Greece....
By Vasudevan Sridharan
Cyprus, the closest European Union member (click here) state to Syria, has offered its airbase to France to pound Islamic State (Isis) targets in the region. The Mediterranean island is just 105km from Syria and officials said they will be happy to offer assistance to French forces.
The former British colony, already used by western powers for humanitarian missions, added that French authorities have not yet reached out to them to use the facilities. "I want to make clear that we will wait for the French authorities, if they want to ask [for] something from us, particularly our location and our facilities we would be very glad to provide them with this solidarity and assistance," Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides told reporters....
Americans don't think and dialogue about government instability. The only instability Americans worry about is that of Wall Street. Yet, the world is awash of waxing and waning instability every day.
November 19, 2015
By AP
Nicosia, Cyprus (AP) — Britain's foreign secretary (click here) says the world's "best brains" could be recruited to assist complex negotiations aimed at reunifying ethnically-split Cyprus.
Philip Hammond said after talks with his Cypriot counterpart on Thursday that these experts could also help in finding ways to financially support a peace deal.
Hammond said he's confident that the international community, including the European Union, will provide support to a negotiated settlement of the island's long-standing division.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup aiming to unite the island with Greece....
