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Three members of a Cypriot mountaineering team that left Cyprus at the beginning of January have managed to reach the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in the western and southern hemispheres located in the Andes.
The President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades will pay an official visit to Athens on Wednesday, February 1st, as was announced yesterday, Saturday.
The Cyprus problem, bilateral ties and Commonwealth issues were discussed at a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades with King Charles III in Scotland, following the British monarch’s invitation. The meeting was held in his private residence of Birkhall on the royal Balmoral estate and was also attended by Queen Consort Camilla and Cyprus’ First Lady Andri Anastasiades.
Britain’s Princess Anne visited British soldiers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force on ethnically divided Cyprus.
"A two-state solution for Cyprus is not an option and Germany will continue to push for a de-escalation of tensions on the island", the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said today, Monday, during a joint news conference with her Cypriot counterpart, Ioannis Kasoulides.
A consortium of Italy's Eni and France's TotalEnergies has found more natural gas off Cyprus, boosting Europe's hopes for a clean break from Russian gas. However, the exploration programme is hotly disputed by Turkey. The Turkish Energy Minister, Fatih Donmez, repeated yesterday that "Any natural gas discoveries made off the coast of Cyprus should be shared with the Turkish-occupied north of the island". Turkey invaded Cyprus's northern third in 1974.
Frontline is the world’s fourth largest oil tanker company, based in Hamilton, Bermuda and controlled by Fredriksen, a naturalised Cypriot citizen. The major ship-owning company is registered in Bermuda and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Now, John Fredriksen, the Norwegian-born Cypriot billionaire wants to move his shipping company Frontline Ltd, to Cyprus to take advantage of the benefits, including a European Union-approved tonnage tax regime available only to tax residents of the island.
A consortium made up of energy companies Eni of Italy and France’s Total is expediting plans to develop natural gas deposits off Cyprus following the discovery of a third field containing 2-3 trillion cubic feet of the hydrocarbon inside the same licensed exploration area, the Cypriot energy ministry said Wednesday.
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