Christodoulides to Androulakis: “For the first time, solidarity in action, Cyprus is not part of the crisis”

Cyprus President Nicos Christodoulides stated that, for the archetypal time, Cyprus experienced tangible European solidarity—not conscionable statements and announcements—while welcoming PASOK person Nikos Androulakis to the Presidential Palace. This comes astatine a clip erstwhile Nicosia is seeking to crook caller geopolitical pressures into governmental and strategical gains for the Republic of Cyprus.

The Cypriot President emphasized that Cyprus’s information was treated successful signifier arsenic a substance of European security, noting that this creates caller dynamics and opens the treatment for meaningful activation of Article 42(7) of the Treaty connected European Union, the communal assistance clause, which obliges EU subordinate states to assistance immoderate subordinate that faces equipped attack.

Message to Brussels
Christodoulides stressed that Cyprus is not portion of the situation but portion of the solution successful the region, reinforcing Nicosia’s presumption that the land should not beryllium treated arsenic a passive perceiver oregon a peripheral outpost of Middle East unrest, but arsenic an EU subordinate authorities with a defined role, organization weight, and information rights.

In the aforesaid vein, the Cypriot President straight linked the European stance to the section connected information and guarantees successful the Cyprus issue, asserting that the European Union has demonstrated successful signifier that it tin enactment arsenic the strongest safeguard for the Republic of Cyprus.

This connection carries a wide governmental imprint, arsenic Nicosia has agelong sought to integrate the European magnitude much powerfully into discussions astir the aboriginal of information aft a imaginable solution.

Androulakis: No EU authorities successful the war
PASOK person Nikos Androulakis emphasized that nary EU subordinate authorities should go progressive successful a warfare against Iran, portion noting that non-involvement should not mean passivity. He stressed that European states indispensable amusement afloat solidarity with immoderate subordinate authorities that requests it and welcomed the information that this enactment was expressed successful favour of the Republic of Cyprus.

Androulakis besides gave a humanities perspective, noting that Cyprus’s existent quality to person specified European enactment is simply a effect of its EU membership, adjacent with the Cyprus contented unresolved—a improvement helium attributed to the strategy followed by PASOK governments successful Greece.

He besides assured that Athens volition consistently enactment a conscionable and sustainable solution to the Cyprus contented based connected UN resolutions, ruling retired immoderate imaginable of accepting partition plans.