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After the completion of the 2nd Cyprus-Greece Intergovernmental Summit, a associated communique was issued.
The leaders of the 2 countries reaffirmed their committedness to the institutionalisation of intergovernmental meetings, which contributes to ensuring stableness successful the Eastern Mediterranean and further strengthens the bilateral practice betwixt Greece and Cyprus.
In the associated communique, it is noted, among different things, that determination was a treatment connected the latest developments successful the Cyprus contented and the practice of the 2 countries successful a fig of sectors.
“On November 27, 2024, the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulidis and the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Kyriakos Mitsotakis co-chaired the 2nd Intergovernmental Summit of the 2 countries.
In the midst of an ever-changing geopolitical environment, with wars successful the Middle East and Ukraine, the alteration of medication successful the US and the commencement of the caller organization circular successful the EU, President Christodoulidis and Prime Minister Mitsotakis reaffirmed their committedness successful the institutionalization of intergovernmental meetings, which contributes to ensuring stableness successful the Eastern Mediterranean and further strengthens the bilateral practice betwixt Greece and Cyprus.
The enactment of this year’s league was chiefly acrophobic with the latest developments successful the Cyprus conflict, successful a twelvemonth which marked the 50th day of the amerciable penetration and continued concern by Turkey. The 2 leaders welcomed the mobilization wrong the United Nations, the meal successful New York nether the Secretary-General connected 15 October and his volition to convene a multilateral league successful the adjacent future. The 2 leaders emphasised erstwhile again that the solution to the Cyprus contented tin lone beryllium based connected the applicable resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and expressed the anticipation that Turkey volition lend substantially to the resumption and behaviour of the talks, wrong the agreed framework, successful bid to person advancement besides successful Euro-Turkish, successful accordance with the Conclusions of the European Council of April 17-18.
The Summit focused peculiarly connected practice to amended mundane beingness and upgrade the prime of beingness of the citizens of the 2 countries. In this context, it was decided to grow practice to caller related areas, specified arsenic labour and societal policy, to complement the already existing areas of practice successful acquisition and health.
In the tract of Education, the advancement achieved was reviewed, which includes the signing of the caller practice programme 2023-2027 and the ratification of the Agreement connected the Mutual Academic Recognition of University Degrees.
The important advancement successful the practice betwixt the 2 states successful wellness matters was recognized, which includes the signing of the agreements concerning the cross-transplantation of kidneys and the transplantation of lungs. In addition, it was agreed to velocity up actions for the implementation of the enactment concerning practice successful the pharmaceutical market.
In the tract of labour and societal security, it was decided to fortify the practice and the speech of know-how and bully practices betwixt the competent services of Cyprus and Greece successful the matters of the outgo of shared pensions, the accomplishment of the communal extremity of further strengthening employment, upgrading the indispensable skills of quality resources and combating undeclared work.
In matters of societal argumentation and welfare, the enlargement of intergovernmental practice was agreed to fortify the extortion of susceptible citizens. In this context, it was decided to reason a Memorandum of Cooperation successful the areas of household support, payment argumentation for susceptible societal groups, enactment for radical with disabilities and their families, arsenic good arsenic kid protection.
In presumption of integer policy, important advancement was made successful the improvement of the Cypriot exertion of the Digital Citizen done the transportation of know-how from the Greek broadside successful the discourse of the implementation of the applicable statement signed betwixt the 2 sides.
In the tract of energy, the important advancement made successful promoting the implementation of the Cyprus-Crete electrical interconnection project, Great Sea Interconnector, with the signing of the Framework of Understanding betwixt the 2 competent ministries and the adjacent steps, was discussed. Satisfaction was besides expressed for the involvement shown successful participating successful the task by concern funds from assorted countries. At the aforesaid time, it was decided to fortify practice successful the issues of the cognition of the competitory market, earthy state and RES.
It was besides decided to cooperate connected situation and clime alteration issues, with an accent connected the speech of know-how connected a fig of issues, among which the improvement and absorption of h2o resources and the voluntary c marketplace mechanics basal out. In addition, the important advancement of civilian extortion actions, specified arsenic the exigency fig 112 and the utilisation of Cyclops grooming halfway programs, was recognized. The fantabulous practice successful the repatriation of nationals of the 2 countries from Lebanon past October was besides welcomed.
In the tract of justice, the speech of know-how was agreed connected matters of judicial reform, warring corruption and strengthening the regularisation of law, portion successful taxation policy, the combat against taxation evasion. The signing of the memorandum of practice successful the fields of preventing and combating unit against women past October was besides welcomed.
Regarding the practice of the 2 states successful nationalist medication and governance, it was decided to motion a Memorandum of Cooperation betwixt the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus and the Office of the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic for the transportation of know-how from the Greek side, with the purpose of creating a Long-Term Planning Unit (Foresight) astatine the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus.
In the defence sector, the constitution of a Political Body for Consultation and Interoperability was discussed and the associated usage of European tools for innovative initiatives successful defence manufacture issues was considered. In addition, multilateral information and defence practice successful the Eastern Mediterranean was examined.
In matters of probe and innovation, enactment for the associated programme for backing probe and innovation projects done the telephone for proposals that has conscionable precocious been announced by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation and the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Innovation was reaffirmed, arsenic good arsenic the enlargement of anticipation of practice for the instauration of a Cypriot level connected the ground of the Greek Elevate Greece with consequent improvement of interoperability of the 2 accusation systems for the payment of some businesses of the 2 States. Furthermore, it was decided to cooperate astatine the European level to make artificial quality infrastructures.
In the shipping sector, the important advancement achieved successful the promotion of maritime education, the speech of know-how regarding the digitization of services of the registers of the 2 countries, the instauration of prospects for the sustainable cognition of the Cyprus-Greece maritime rider nexus was confirmed arsenic good arsenic the competitiveness of European shipping, done the associated actions and initiatives that person been carried out. It was agreed, the further strengthening of practice done the moving groups that person been acceptable up.
As acold arsenic Culture is concerned, a reappraisal was made of the advancement achieved, which includes the signing of the archetypal Agreement betwixt Cyprus and Greece successful the tract of Culture, and ways of strengthening practice successful matters related to the amerciable trafficking of taste goods were discussed, successful capturing the socio-economic interaction of Culture done studies and rational improvement of resources,
as good arsenic ways to fortify the relations successful the discourse of European and planetary cooperation, some betwixt the 2 countries and with their partners successful Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
In addition, connected the ground of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed connected 18/10/2021 betwixt the 2 states with the purpose of implementing infrastructure projects for the reconstruction and upgrading of the areas of Eastern Attica affected by the wildfires successful 2018, the anticipation of the remainder of the sponsorship of of the Republic of Cyprus to beryllium allocated for the partial sum of infrastructure projects.
Finally, it was agreed that the adjacent Intergovernmental Summit should instrumentality spot successful Greece successful 2025, with a taxable that volition beryllium mutually determined.”
PM Mitsotakis: We stay steadfast successful matters of sovereignty, compliance with planetary instrumentality and the instrumentality of the sea
“The 2 countries are aligning their nationalist aspirations. This 2nd intergovernmental gathering is simply a peculiar event”, stressed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis successful his statements aft the completion of the 2nd Greece-Cyprus intergovernmental gathering astatine the Presidential Mansion successful Nicosia connected Wednesday.
“My person Nikos and I had acceptable the extremity from our archetypal meetings to fortify the adjacent narration betwixt Greece and Cyprus and to springiness it an organization character. These are discussions of substance and not communication,”Mitsotakis said.
He referred to immoderate of the areas successful which determination is adjacent cooperation. In acquisition with the communal designation of world courses and with the premier curate estimating that “the large leap that Greece is making by attracting branches of overseas universities, volition find involvement from Cypriot institutions”. In wellness with associated cause purchases and practice successful transplants, successful civilian extortion wherever determination is bully practice astatine the operational level and this extends to the enactment of European argumentation towards the clime crisis. Also, successful integer governance wherever Greece offers expertise successful issues related to integer transactions and successful narration to concern and national relations with the state.
On the energy, helium spoke of the strategical task of the electrical interconnection of the 2 countries. “A task that besides enjoys beardown European support”, helium pointed retired and besides talked astir practice connected biology issues.
On the large geopolitical challenges, Mitsotakis said that Greece and Cyprus are pillars of stableness and information and get much and much stronger voice. He expressed his restitution with the truce that seems to person been reached successful confederate Lebanon and noted that Greece and Cyprus are warring from the precise opening truthful that the situation does not instrumentality connected the characteristics of a determination flare-up. The premier curate spoke of a affirmative improvement and wished for a corresponding truce successful the Gaza Strip.
Regarding developments successful the Cyprus issue, helium stated that determination is simply a favourable dynamic for the resumption of talks. “We person signs of progress. Our changeless pursuit is the just and sustainable solution based connected the decisions of the UN Security Council. Greece volition beryllium a non-permanent subordinate successful the 2 years 2025-2026 and it is an accidental to bring the nationalist rights of the divided Cyprus to the planetary spotlight. There is implicit alignment of the 2 governments”, helium stressed.
He besides stated that the bully clime successful Greek-Turkish relations does not connote a alteration successful Turkiye’s positions. “We stay steadfast successful matters of sovereignty, compliance with planetary instrumentality and the instrumentality of the sea. Anyone who has beardown arguments should not hesitate to contiguous them successful nationalist honorable debate. We look with assurance the calm waters successful Greek-Turkish relations, successful the position that calm horizons volition besides open”, helium underlined.
He pointed retired that Turkiye-EU relations are besides examined done the cognition of the neighbouring state towards Greece and Cyprus and that determination is simply a strict model of criteria that Ankara indispensable fulfill, among which is its cognition towards the Cyprus issue.
The premier curate called the 2nd Greece-Cyprus intergovernmental gathering productive and said helium is looking guardant to the 3rd gathering adjacent twelvemonth successful Athens.
On his portion Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides stated “I americium peculiarly satisfied not lone for the institutionalisation of intergovernmental practice and the beingness of truthful galore ministers, but much for the important and tangible things that person emerged”. Christodoulides stated that the semipermanent practice betwixt the 2 countries is expanding for the payment of the societies.
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