26/08/2020 16:36
During the last 24 hours we are witnessing an orchestrated effort by the Al Jazeera network, which, after succeeding in obtaining confidential documents of the Republic of Cyprus, has launched an attack against our country through distortion of facts and through deception, Minister of the Interior Nicos Nouris has stressed in the light of a series of strories published by Al Jazeera about the Cyprus Investment Programme.
In his opening remarks at a press conference, Nouris said that "investigative journalism is one thing, which we respect, but propaganda which aims to harm the country politically and economically is a completely different thing".
He also said that the Ministry of Interior has from the very beginning begun an investigation about all the information made public by Al Jazeera.
Nouris underlined that "at a time when Cyprus is under threat and gives a political struggle against Turkey`s expansionist plans,
at a time when Cyprus is threatened by targeted and organized demographic change with directed migration flows, the state news network Al Jazeera, which is based in a country known for its pro-Turkish positions and which only recently supported the Turkish economy with 15 billion, attempts to harm the Republic of Cyprus with distorted and misleading information".
The Minister told journalists that for the government it is clear that there is an effort to harm Cyprus before the important European Council Summit, which will decide on issues like immigration and granting of European citizenship.
He added that the government reserves its rights and emphasized in the most categorical way that the government does not intend to participate in this propaganda game which aims to undermine the state.
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