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US TO CONDUCT MILITARY TRAINING WITH CYPRUS, UPSETTING TURKEY

Ankara criticises announcement that the State Department will fund military
training for the Republic of Cyprus.


Cyprus National Guard Gazelle helicopters fire rockets at stationary targets
during military exercises at Kalo Chorio in Larnaca [Alex Mita/AFP]
Published On 9 Jul 20209 Jul 2020
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The United States has said it will conduct military training with the Republic
of Cyprus for the first time, drawing criticism from its NATO ally, Turkey.

The announcement came months after the US Congress late last year ended an arms
embargo on the entire island, imposed in 1987 to prevent an arms race and
encourage a peaceful settlement in one of the world’s most enduring frozen
conflicts.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops seized its northern third
in response to an Athens-inspired Greek Cypriot coup aimed at uniting the
eastern Mediterranean island with Greece. Seeds of conflict were sown earlier,
prompting the dispatch of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in 1964.

Turkey still maintains tens of thousands of soldiers on the island’s north,
which in 1983 declared itself to be a republic and is recognised only by Ankara.



Greek Cypriots are running the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus, a
European Union member, while UN peacekeeping forces still patrol the so-called
“Green Line” – a 180km (112 miles) buffer zone between the Turkish Cypriot
north and the Greek Cypriot south.



US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the State Department for the
first time had included Cyprus in its International Military Education and
Training funding programme for 2020 as part of “our expanding security
relationship”.

“This is part of our efforts to enhance relationships with key regional partners
to promote stability in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Pompeo told reporters.






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The announcement drew criticism by Turkey and the self-declared Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). “Initiatives that do not observe balance between
parties will not contribute to establishing a secure environment on the Island,
nor will they help keep peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean,”
foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement.



“As we have stressed many times before, these steps will not contribute to
finding a solution to the Cyprus issue but instead strengthens the
uncompromising approach of the Greek side,” he added.

While the island has remained largely peaceful in recent decades, and Greek
Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have worked to build ties, numerous attempts
at reunification have failed.

Meanwhile, tensions have recently flared over Turkey’s drilling for gas off the
island, with the EU calling the move illegal.

US officials, at the same time, have encouraged the warming relations with
Israel of both Cyprus and Greece.

Source: News Agencies

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