Cyprus’ permission for Russian warships to call at the ports of the Mediterranean country was issued as an extension to a previously concluded agreement and not the new one, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday.
The addition to the previous agreement stipulates a legal right for the Russian warships to call at the ports of Cyprus with humanitarian aims.
‘The renewed agreement stipulates the right for the Russian warships to call at the Cypriot ports,’ Anastasiades said addressing news conference at TASS. ‘This right stipulates their calls with humanitarian aims, which are supplies of provision and refueling of vessels, as well as for rescue of lives of Russian nationals and their evacuation from neighboring countries.’
Anastasiades said that during negotiations on this ‘sensitive issue’ Russian President Vladimir Putin was ‘very delicate.’
‘I deeply respect Mister Putin, who knowing sensitive approaches to such issues in regard to Cyprus, was not laying any conditions or making demands and spoke very delicately with us,’ the Cypriot president said. ‘He [Putin] never put us in a complicated position in regard to our partners.’
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The battle lines are shifting quickly. The only line in the sand your pResident understands is one made in a sand trap on the golf course.
Cyprus first, Greece second and then the decisions are: Portugal, Spain or Italy. Unless ISIS attacks from Tripoli first.
David DeGerolamo
