The US must stand with Cyprus, Chairman of the Senate’s Foreign
Washington expresses concern about Turkey’s plans to drill in the waters off Cyprus and urges Turkish authorities to halt operations “in an area that Cyprus claims as its exclusive economic zone”, a US Embassy Spokesperson told Cyprus News Agency, and a State Department told Hellas Journal.
PM Alexis Tsipras, in concert with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, intends to raise the issue of Turkey’s provocative actions in the Aegean and Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) during the European leaders’ summit meetings in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, government sources said on Wednesday.