#us arms embargo

A leading American Jewish organisation has called for the United States to permanently lift its arms embargo on Cyprus, arguing that the island’s security is now central to stability ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Saturday decried the “constant arms race undertaken by the Greek Cypriot side” during a meeting with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz in Ankara. ...

A bill has been submitted to the United States’ House of Representative which foresees the permanent lifting the US arms embargo in place against Cyprus since 1987. The bill, which was ...

Seemingly coming out of left field, news broke this week of Cyprus’ induction into three programmes allowing the purchase of military hardware directly from the US government. Did Nicosia hype ...

Cyprus’ political parties on Thursday largely welcomed the United States’ decision to allow the Republic of Cyprus to purchase military hardware directly. Disy leader and House president Annita Demetriou described ...

The lifting of a US arms embargo against Cyprus for another year has been branded a “grave mistake” by the Turkish foreign ministry, it emerged on Sunday. The Turkish Foreign ...

Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe ...

Cyprus on Friday welcomed the extension of the lifting of the US arms embargo for the 2024 fiscal year. Following the decision of the US state department that will continue to ...

Defence Minister Michalis Georgallas on Sunday welcomed the US Senator Robert Menendez’s proposed amendment to the National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) extending to three years from one the renewal ...

US Senator Robert Menendez has introduced an amendment to the US National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) that seeks to extend the present one-year renewal period on arms sales to the ...

As things stand Cyprus will not send weapons to Ukraine, President Nicos Anastasiades said late on Thursday, following the buzz generated by earlier remarks from the government spokesman. Anastasiades was ...

The complete lifting of the arms embargo on Cyprus by the US comes into force on Saturday, following an announcement by the State Department on September 17. The lifting of the ...

The foreign ministry on Saturday said the Republic has now fulfilled the requirements of the US 2019 partnership act and hopes that Washington will fully lift its decades-old arms embargo on ...

The US Department of State has renewed for one more year the partial waiver on the arms embargo on Cyprus. In a notice published Thursday in the Federal Register, the ...

Greeks and Greek Cypriots want to scrap Turkish guarantees and get rid Cyprus of the Turkish army, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Wednesday. Tatar, who was visiting the ...