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[VIDEO] Letymiotis: The flights for the repatriation of Cypriots begin tomorrow

[VIDEO] Letymiotis: The flights for the repatriation of Cypriots begin tomorrow

Flights for the repatriation of Cypriots who are in areas affected by the crisis in the Middle East begin tomorrow.

announced tonight

Government Representative

,

Konstantinos Letympiotis

.

Mr. Letympiotis also announced that after the communication he had

Chairman

of the Republic with

Chancellor

of Germany, to investigate the German assistance in the preventive measures taken, corresponding to the assistance from France and Greece, today the heads of the armed forces of the two countries had contact at the operational level.

Communication between the Ministers of Defense of the two countries is scheduled for tomorrow in order to finalize and fully clarify the manner of Germany's assistance in continuation of France and Greece.

This afternoon the President of the Republic, in the context of ongoing diplomatic contacts, had a telephone conversation with

Prime Minister

of the United Kingdom,

Keir Starmer

. He added that the Prime Minister informed the President about his country's decision to send a warship to Cyprus in the near future.

As part of the contacts of the President of the Republic, he also had a telephone conversation with the President of the European Commission today,

Ursula von der Leyen

, with the Chancellor of Austria, Christian Stocker, and with the President of France,

Emmanuel Macron

, while respectively the Minister of Foreign Affairs,

Konstantinos Kombos

, had contacts today with the High Representative of the European Union, Kaya Kalas, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India, the United Arab Emirates, Serbia, the United Kingdom, Greece and France.

Source: RIK Radio, KYPE

KOS/MX

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