Posts tagged with "eastern mediterranean"

Good reasons why energy giants are eyeing the East Med Opinion

Good reasons why energy giants are eyeing the East Med

October 7th, 2018 By Charles Ellinas Interest in the East Med has increased during the last ten years with the discovery of major gas fields such as Tamar, Leviathan and more recently the giant Zohr field in Egypt. These have opened up major opportunities for new discoveries, but also for oil and gas investments in the region. This was confirmed at...
Turkey planning to establish ‘sovereign base’ in the north – reports Cyprus

Turkey planning to establish ‘sovereign base’ in the north – reports

August 28th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Turkey is planning to establish a sovereign naval base in the north of the island, it was reported on Tuesday. According to Turkish daily Yeni Safak, Turkey’s navy has submitted a proposal to the ‘foreign ministry’ in the north for the establishment of the base. Such a base in the north would ensure...
Neophytou: US-Cyprus ties have entered a new level in field of energy   Energy

Neophytou: US-Cyprus ties have entered a new level in field of energy  

June 7th, 2018 The US and Cyprus have entered a new level of relations in the field of energy, especially after the third licensing round with ExxonMobil signing an exploration and production sharing contract for block 10 of the island’s EEZ, Disy leader Averof Neophytou said Neophytou was speaking at the 4th Washington Oil & Gas Forum...
Stakes in Syria higher than ever Opinion

Stakes in Syria higher than ever

July 10th, 2016 By Farid Mirbagheri The complicated labyrinth of West Asian tragedy is claiming more innocent lives amidst the deadly rivalry in the high politics of religious sectarianism in the region. It is not so much what the regional power brokers aim to achieve but rather what they wish to prevent that is causing the calamity. Syria, the...
EU looking towards East Med gas reserves Cyprus

EU looking towards East Med gas reserves

April 25th, 2016 Eastern Mediterranean gas reserves, including Cyprus’, could play a significant part in addressing the European Union’s drive for energy diversification, the European Commission reiterated on Monday. During a press briefing in Brussels, Jakub Adamowicz, European Commission Spokesperson for Transport and Regional Policy, was asked...
DISY leader visits Israel to 'further strengthen ties' Cyprus

DISY leader visits Israel to 'further strengthen ties'

January 10th, 2016 DISY leader and chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, Averof Neophytou was in Israel on Sunday where he met Israeli President, Reuven Rivlin, among other officials. According to an official announcement, during meetings, both sides stressed the importance of further strengthening cooperation between Cyprus and Israel,...
Kasoulides leaves for Med Group meeting in Paris Cyprus

Kasoulides leaves for Med Group meeting in Paris

February 19th, 2015 Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, leaves on Thursday for Paris, where he will participate in the second ministerial meeting of the Mediterranean Group (Med Group). The Med Group is an informal body consisting of seven Mediterranean EU Member States with issues of common interests. The meeting on Friday will be attended by...
Cooperation the key to commercialising natural gas  Cyprus

Cooperation the key to commercialising natural gas 

November 18th, 2014 Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for Energy Affairs at the US State Department Amos Hochstein has said that the best way to commercialise Cyprus` natural gas is by looking at the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole, noting that “we have to identify a way for taking advantage of existing infrastructure”. Hochstein, who was...
‘My friends call me Joe Bidenopoulos’ Cyprus

‘My friends call me Joe Bidenopoulos’

October 6th, 2014 By Staff Reporter US Vice President Joe Biden has spoken of a new opportunity for a “win-win breakthrough” involving Cyprus, Turkey and Israel and the creation of a gas pipeline from the Levant to Europe. Biden was addressing Harvard students in the US and spoke in response to a question from a Cypriot on energy issues in the...
Nicosia to host next Cyprus-Greece-Egypt meet Cyprus

Nicosia to host next Cyprus-Greece-Egypt meet

September 27th, 2014 Nicosia will host the next trilateral meeting at the level of foreign ministers between Cyprus, Greece and Egypt. The three countries have expressed their common willingness and intention to organise a trilateral summit as soon as possible. The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt, Ioannis Kasoulides, Evangelos Venizelos...
US urges end to threats in and around Cyprus Cyprus

US urges end to threats in and around Cyprus

February 11th, 2014 The US on Tuesday stressed the importance of upholding peace and security in and around Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean and urged all parties to “avoid any threats or other actions or statements that escalate tension”. The statement, issued in the context of welcoming the resumption of Cyprus talks, comes within weeks of...
Davutoglu: talks cannot go on forever Cyprus

Davutoglu: talks cannot go on forever

February 10th, 2014 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has been quoted as saying that the new round of Cyprus talks, which begin on Tuesday ‘cannot and will not last forever’. Turkish mainland newspaper, Hurriyet, also quoted Davutoglu as saying that if the Greek Cypriot side rejected the new solution in a referendum as they did with the Annan...
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