N. Anastasiadis for Ukrainian: Cyprus supports and supports measures that tend to implement international law

Cyprus is one of those that support and support measures that tend to implement international law, said tonight the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis, referring to the issue of Ukraine.

Speaking to the media at the THOK Theater for the THOK Awards ceremony, President Anastasiadis told a journalist that at a time when the international community and the EU are imposing sanctions on Russia, the Turkish President is trying to upgrade his geostrategic role. Asked how he translates these moves by Turkey, he said: “I do not translate or do not want to translate the moves of the Turkish President, the policy of Ankara, the clever neutral, is well known.

What I observe with sadness is the attitude of those who have united and are on the same line against the war. That is, while the EU and not only decides to impose sanctions, they are watching with apathy what Turkey, unfortunately, is doing without implementing any sanctions, by developing the theory that they are not sanctions imposed by the UN. “It’s sad that we are watching.”

Asked to comment on the European Commission’s suggestion that countries that have given passports to Russians get them back, the President said that “as far as I know, of the 850 people on the list of banned oligarchs or members of the Duma, only one has Cypriot passport “.

Asked if the Cypriot passport will be removed from this one, the President said “we will see, we are still from those who support and support measures that tend to implement international law. Therefore, a similar decision must be taken for granted by our own on our side “.

Asked if it was time for Europe to turn its attention to Cyprus’s natural gas, the President said: of the United States and the European Council – and I have made extensive reference to all of the above. ”

Source: AMPE