Canada’s Trudeau on a flying visit to Cyprus

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday had a bilateral meeting with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who stopped in Cyprus for refueling on his way to Asia from France.

The meeting took place at the old Larnaca airport building, according to an official statement.

Anastasiades briefed the Canadian PM about the latest developments in the Cyprus problem and thanked him for the principled position of his country. The two men also discussed regional and international matters.

Anastasiades and Trudeau pledged to extend co-operation in international forums. The president invited Trudeau to pay the island an official visit.

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.