Two missions from and one to Cyprus are considered crucial for three important issues that directly affect developments on multiple levels. First is tomorrow’s trip of Nikos Christodoulides and Ursula von der Leyen to Lebanon on the migration issue, next week María Angela Holguín Cuéllar is coming to Nicosia for the Cyprus problem, and within days the construction of the Gaza pier will be completed.
The three issues, although different, are linked primarily in terms of their management by Nicosia. At the same time, these are three issues in which both the European Union and other countries play an important role.
Ursula von der Leyen returns to Cyprus today, this time to contribute to the effort to tackle the issue of migration. The President of the European Commission together with the President of the Republic will travel to Lebanon on Thursday morning with a substantial package in their luggage as an offer to assist the Lebanese authorities in preventing migrants from traveling to Cyprus.
According to reports, in von der Leyen’s luggage is a package that will amount to up to 400 million euros. It is up to the Lebanese authorities to take measures to prevent the trafficking of migrants. That is why the intention is that the package should go directly to the country’s army and not get lost in the central state.
Apart from the bet on the Migration issue, Nicosia has to win the bet on “Amalthea.”
President Christodoulides said that Cyprus, for its part, is ready to start as soon as the green light is given by the US. Asked when to expect the departure of the next ship for Gaza, he said that on May 2, as the Americans have informed him, the pier is being completed.
We are doing all the preparatory work, he added, particularly with the US, the UAE, and the EU to resume sending humanitarian aid to the site.
For the Cyprus problem, President Christodoulides said that the coming week is crucial, it is important, as Mrs. Holguín is coming to Cyprus from Germany, France, Brussels, and Turkey, and he expressed the hope that there will be such data “that will allow us to be optimistic about the resumption of talks.”
