CYPRUS: Cypriot President attends WWI centennial commemoration in Paris

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades attended events in Paris for the November 11 centennial commemoration of the end of WWI.

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More than 80 heads of state and government are present at the ceremonies, after the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Among them US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

President Anastasiades attended Sunday’s a ceremony at the Arch of Triumph, addressed by President Macron.

He will also attend an official lunch at the Elysee Palace, in honour of the foreign heads of state and government.

Leaders attending the event are expected to hand over to the “library of peace” a book of their own choice they deem to contribute to the cause of peace.

The centenary of the armistice that ended the WWI in 1918 is also celebrated in the Republic of Cyprus.

Foreign diplomats attended a ceremony held annually at the military cemetery in the UN administered buffer zone.

There was also a wreath laying ceremony at the graves of two WWI French soldiers, buried at the Larnaca cemetery.