Lebanon’s army chief on official visit
Lebanon`s armed forces chief Joseph Aoun is paying an official visit to Cyprus accompanied by a three-member delegation at the invitation of the National Guard chief, Lieutenant General Demokritos ...
Defence ministers of Cyprus and Slovakia sign cooperation MoU
The ministers of defence of Cyprus and Slovakia met on Thursday in Nicosia to discuss
bilateral relations, the continuing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean region as well as the recent ...
Slovakian defence minister to visit
The defence minister of Slovakia, Jaroslav Naď, will visit Cyprus on Thursday to discuss the promotion of defence and military cooperation between the two countries.
During his visit, the Slovak ...
Cyprus and Lebanon sign MoU for oil and gas cooperation
Cyprus and Lebanon signed an MoU agreement for cooperation in the oil and gas sector on Friday during a visit by the neighbouring country’s Defence Minister and Deputy Prime ...
US Senate Committee approves bill to bolster US defence partnership with Greece
US Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) applauded the Committee passage of their new legislation to bolster the United ...
First eight national guardsmen off to train in US
The US on Thursday welcomed in their Nicosia embassy, the first eight officers from the National Guard who are going to participate in the International Military Education and Training (IMET) ...
Defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt strengthen ties
The defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt met in Nicosia on Wednesday to further strengthen military ties.
In their joint statement following the 4th trilateral defence ministers΄ meeting, the ...
Trilateral defence meeting in Nicosia
Defence minister Charalambos Petrides will meet his Greek and Egyptian counterparts in Nicosia on Wednesday afternoon.
Petrides will meet Nikolaos Panayiotopoulos and General Mohamed Zaki to discuss the latest developments ...
France’s Charles de Gaulle carrier in Limassol
Escorted by a Cyprus offshore patrol vessel, France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier sailed into Limassol harbour on Monday.
According to a statement by the defence ministry, the arrival ...
Our View: What do we have to gain from a defence alliance with Israel?
The main news to emerge from President Anastasiades’ one-day visit to Israel on Sunday was that vaccinated Israelis would be free to travel to Cyprus without a PCR test and ...
Cyprus and UAE sign defence memorandum of cooperation
Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday signed a Defence and Military Memorandum of Cooperation.
The Memorandum was signed during a teleconference by the defence ministers of the ...