Politico (7 September 2023)

Jack STRAW

Jack Straw was foreign secretary of the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2006.

The bloc should have put accession on ice and made it clear to both sides that only a united island would be allowed to join.

It was recently reported that two houses in an exclusive enclave near Moscow had been purchased for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughters by a Cypriot company named Ermira, which was officially owned by a Russian lawyer, but in reality it belonged to Putin.

The close association between Russia and the Greek-Cypriot Republic of Cyprus(*) is long standing, all pervasive and, many believe, rather unhealthy. But what is the solution to this problem?

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(*) AVİM uses "Cyprus" as a geographic name. AVİM considers the expression "Republic of Cyprus" to mean the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus.