Christodoulides: Cyprus a safe haven in a troubled region

At the 21st Economist Cyprus Summit successful Nicosia, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides stressed that the solution of the Cypriot contented is not lone a nationalist work but a information contented for the entire region and of cardinal value for European integration itself. His connection was made astatine the two-day league connected 3-4 November entitled “Bridging continents for security, concern and energy”.

The Cypriot President described Cyprus arsenic a “safe haven” successful a turbulent neighbourhood, a connectivity hub betwixt 3 continents with a wide occidental orientation. He underlined that Nicosia has spearheaded trilateral and multilateral practice with Greece, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and the UAE, and acceptable an ambitious extremity of maturing conditions for a determination information enactment successful the Middle East, on the lines of the OSCE.

A cardinal notation was made to the Amalthea sea corridor, done which, successful practice with the EU, the US, the UAE and the UK, humanitarian assistance is being sent to Gaza. According to authoritative updates truthful acold and caller figures accompanying Nicosia’s verified six-point program for the “next day”, a full of astir 25,000 tonnes of assistance person been moved done the corridor, with shipments resuming successful the autumn.

In the aforesaid context, Nicosia has presented a factual publication to the implementation of the US model for Gaza, proposing operational enactment and usage of the Amalthea for reconstruction.

President Christodoulides stood connected the unprecedented upgrading of Cypriot-American relations, with an accent connected projects involving the Andreas Papandreou Air Base successful Paphos and related dual relation infrastructure, from defence to humanitarian evacuation operations. The applicable practice is besides reflected successful caller decisions connected modernization and improved entree to the region.

Against the backdrop of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU successful 2026, Nicos Christodoulides spoke of strengthening the strategical autonomy of the Union and engaging much substantially with the issues of the South, from the Mediterranean to the Gulf, underlining that the information of the portion is inextricably linked to the information of Europe.

“Window” for resumption of talks

The Cypriot President linked outward-looking policies and humanitarian initiatives to the revival of planetary involvement successful the Cyprus problem. He noted the relation of the United Nations and the UN Secretary General’s idiosyncratic envoy Maria Angela Olgin, arsenic good arsenic the assignment by the EU of a peculiar envoy (former Commissioner Johannes Hahn) arsenic signs of question connected the diplomatic front.

The predetermination of Tufan Erhiurman successful the occupied territories 2 weeks ago, with a wide mandate successful favour of resuming talks connected a national basis, creates a caller governmental environment, with Olgin’s adjacent sojourn scheduled for aboriginal December.

The Stakes

The connection from Nicosia was clear. A viable, workable solution based connected UN resolutions and the European acquis volition unlock the island’s potential, safeguard determination stableness and, arsenic Christodoulides said, service the broader extremity of European integration. The circumstances, with the UN-EU mobility and the rearrangements successful the occupied territories, amusement that the model of accidental exists. The question is whether the parties progressive volition marque usage of it earlier it closes.