Cypriot government

Cyprus on Wednesday said it would not tolerate any deviation from EU sanctions on Russia, and said it was in touch with the US and Britain after a number of its nationals were blacklisted last week as sanctions-busting enablers. 

The Cypriot government does not intend to stop the measure that encourages the installation of solar panels in homes, but to enhance it, Minister of Energy, Trade and Industry Natasa Pilides pointed out last Friday.

The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative coronavirus test as the Asian country grapples with a nationwide Covid-19 outbreak.

We will not accept another form of solution to the Cyprus problem, the Cypriot government spokesman stresses

Ankara is flexing its military muscle in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in an apparent effort to torpedo efforts to proceed with the construction of the EastMed pipeline by imposing its own maps and pushing its expansionist theory of the "Blue Motherland" at sea.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will head a delegation to Cyprus and Israel Monday to discuss bilateral ties and developments in the Eastern Mediterranean.

His visit to Nicosia for talks with President Nicos Anastasiades takes place ahead of an informal summit on the Cyprus issue in early March.

Despite an initial interest shown by several companies in reviving a ferry link connecting Cyprus and Greece,not a single offer was submitted in the tender launched by the Cypriot government on December 2020, the country's Shipping Deputy Ministry announced Friday.

The tender process closed on January 29.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres intends to meet next month with ethnically split Cyprus' rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders to gauge whether conditions are ripe to resume dormant peace talks, the Cypriot government spokesman said on Monday.

The women were arrested at Larnaca airport and, according to Cypriot police, admitted to being paid between 700 and 1,000 euros to make the trip as 'fake brides' for non-EU nationals trying to secure residence in the bloc.

The Cypriot government and its health advisory committee discussed on Tuesday the possibility of relaxing certain restrictions sooner than anticipated, but final decisions are expected to emerge after the cabinet's meeting on Wednesday.