Papadopoulos in Russia for EU summit

By a Staff Reporter

CYPRUS will contribute to the effort to enhance relations between the European Union and Russia in its capacity as an acceding country and later as a full EU member, President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday in an address to the EU-Russia Summit in St Petersburg.

Papadopoulos spoke of the excellent relations between Russia and Cyprus, and said that EU enlargement offered an opportunity and a commitment to maximise mutual benefits for both Russia and the EU.“The enlargement of the Union should be grasped as an opportunity and as a commitment for maximising mutual benefits for both sides,” he said. “As a new member state of the Union, we also look forward to the extension of the EU-Russia Partnership and Co-operation Agreement to Cyprus, a step that would further enrich our relations.”

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.