The latest developments in the Cyprus issue and the European Agenda on Migration were the focus of the meeting held here on Thursday between the President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades and the EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos who is visiting Cyprus at the invitation of the President of the House of Representatives Yiannakis Omirou.
According to an official press release issued here today, during the meeting, President Anastasiades briefed Avramopoulos on the latest developments on the Cyprus problem in view of the tomorrow`s resumption of the UN-led Cyprus talks between the leaders of the two communities on the island.
On his part, Avramopoulos briefed President Anastasiades on the European Agenda on Migration which was approved yesterday by the College of Commissioners.
Cyprus Minister of the Interior Socrates Hasikos welcomed yesterday the adoption of the Agenda by the College of European Commissioners, adding that this is a very important decision, which provides for immediate and long-term measures to combat serious migration flows to Europe, particularly to Mediterranean countries, and the problems created by the management of such phenomena.
The Greek EU Commissioner will address in the afternoon the plenary of the House on the issue of immigration, in the framework of a discussion at the Parliament on `the immediate measures that need to be taken on national and European level to tackle the immigration crisis in the Mediterranean`.
Before the plenary session, the Commissioner will be received by the House President. After the meeting they will make statements to the press.
