Moscow is prepared to help ease tensions in the eastern Mediterranean where Cyprus and Greece are embroiled in a standoff with Turkey over maritime and energy rights, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay an official visit to Cyprus at a time of heated confrontation in the eastern Mediterranean while Washington pulls Nicosia closer. Cyprus Foreign Ministers Nikos Christodoulides
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades denounced Turkey’s “aggressiveness” and urged talks to resolve a row over maritime borders and gas drilling rights, warning spiralling Mediterranean tensions risked destabilising the region. Tensions are running
Every EU effort is focused on de-escalation and dialogue to avoid military conflict between Greece and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean over energy and maritime rights, said Commission spokesman Peter Stano. Stano
The leaders of the Cypriot, Armenian, Kurdish and Egyptian diasporas in the UK have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to “incentivise” Ankara to end its destabilising actions in the
Turkey said it will hold a military exercise off Cyprus for the next two weeks, amid growing tensions over energy exploration rights in the east Mediterranean. The long-running dispute between Turkey and
Joint naval and air exercises codenamed “Evnomia” with the participation of EU partners France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus wrap up on Friday south of the island’s coast. Naval surface vessels, submarines and
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke over the phone with US President Donald Trump about the rising tension in the Eastern Mediterranean as Greece, Cyprus, Italy and France were conducting joint military
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly stressed the need to respect the rule of law in the Eastern Mediterranean as the first joint military exercise involving Greece, Cyprus, France and Italy in
In a show of military strength, Cyprus, Greece, France, and Italy have decided on a joint naval and aerial exercise in the eastern Mediterranean on Wednesday, the Cypriot Defence Ministry said. The
