Cyprus is regaining its credibility and as a trustworthy country it has a very important geopolitical and political role to play in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Government Spokesman Mr. Christos Stylianides said today.
In his remarks to reporters, following the conclusion of the visit in London by the President of the Republic, the Government Spokesman said that “all the Ministers and myself as Government Spokesman, had parallel contacts on the sidelines of the official meetings of the President of the Republic.
My contacts had to do with meetings with the communication team at 10 Downing Street. Yesterday afternoon, I had a meeting of long duration with the communication team and there we discussed mainly the issue of the image of Cyprus in the United Kingdom, but also more broadly in the international media, especially after the injury that it suffered after we had the known decisions by the two Eurogroup meetings.
I noted a very positive climate about the developments, as those have taken place following the two Eurogroup meetings, Cyprus is regaining its credibility and as a trustworthy country it has a very important geostrategic and political role to play in the eastern Mediterranean as a result of the great geopolitical developments and upsets in the Middle East, but at the same time, and this is very encouraging, it is regaining its credibility once again as financial center.
There were very positive comments by this communication team, which consists mainly of Mr. Cameron’s political advisors and high officials of the British Civil Service, with regard to the image that Cyprus projects today – in spite of the problems that exist, nobody underestimates them or ignores them – and it seems that very positive and important steps have been made during this short period of time of ten months, from the known decisions.
We have reached a series of conclusions, there will be ongoing communication and it seems that there is a political decision so that Cyprus will be assisted to regains its credibility at all levels.
At the same time, I had the opportunity in these meetings to actually observe how such a Communications Service is very well structured. The communications structure of such an important country is in fact impressive and I believe that by carrying experiences and structures from the particular structure that exists in the Office of the Prime Minister and more broadly in the Government, we will also be helped, within the framework of our capabilities.”
He added that “what is important is that all these parallel contacts that were made by all of us, I believe that they have deepened the relations with the British Government and this will be very helpful also at the level of international policy and at the level of common participation in European institutions, but also at the bilateral level.”
