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President: Common challenges with Greece, Lebanon

14/06/2017 10:39
President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday that “we are looking forward to see how, through the new roads we are opening with the trilateral cooperation among Greece, Cyprus and Lebanon, to face challenges which are common but at the same time will give answers to the problems we are facing for the best interest of the people, for the prosperity of our people.”

The President was speaking in Beirut after a meeting with Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon Nabih Berri, in the framework of his official visit to Lebanon.

The President, who was accompanied by the members of the Cypriot delegation, was officially received by Berri while a military guard presented honours and the National Anthems of Cyprus and Lebanon were performed.

Afterwards, President Anastasiades and Berri held a private meeting followed by an expanded meeting with the participation of the delegations of the two sides.

In his remarks to reporters following the meeting, in the presence of Berri, President Anastasiades said that “I had a meeting with the President of the House, a leader who is characterized by his braveness, by his leadership and by his decisiveness for the best interest of Lebanon”.

He added that he was “delighted because we had the opportunity to cover all issues which are interrelated or are of mutual interest, especially Energy, the Economy, the problems of the region, the Cyprus question, the Middle East question as well as the situation in Syria, the humanitarian tragedy.”

“I am so happy because once again we have reaffirmed our excellent relations as well as our decisiveness to continue cultivating and enhancing these excellent relations and we are looking forward to see how, through the new roads we are opening with the trilateral cooperation among Greece, Cyprus and Lebanon, to face challenges which are common but at the same time will give answers to the problems we are facing for the best interest of the people, for the prosperity of our people,” he added.

Concluding the President said that he looks forward to see Berri in Cyprus.