French foreign minister to visit

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will be in Cyprus on Friday for a working visit that will include meetings with the president and the UN.

According to the Cyprus News Agency, Le Drian will have talks with Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides and head of Unficyp Elizabeth Spehar.

The French diplomat will also meet the members of the Committee on Missing Persons.

On Friday afternoon, Le Drian will award former foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides the medal of the

Legion of Honour during an event at the French ambassador’s residence.

The Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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.