“Port Visit” reaction from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the USA: “It should be known that we will show the necessary response”

2023-05-17 18:34:13

In the statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was stated that the continuation of the USA’s military support to Southern Cyprus by increasing it revealed that the USA preferred tension and conflict instead of reconciliation and diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

In a written statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with an official statement made by the US Naval Forces Command, the guided rocket destroyer named USS Arleigh Burke of the 6th Fleet serving in the Eastern Mediterranean made the Greek Cypriot Administration’s visit to Limassol on May 16 as part of the “port visit”. It was announced that it had arrived at the port.

In the statement, it was reminded that the attack submarine USS San Juan belonging to the United States of America had recently visited the same Greek sea port under the guise of a “port visit”, and the following statements were included:

“The transfer of warships belonging to the American navy to the island twice in a short time is a new example of the USA’s disregard for the balances on the island and openly taking sides. Simplified justifications such as the so-called ‘partnership’ and ‘planned visit’ used by the USA to cover up the gravity of the incident are also far from convincing.

As it is known, the USA completely lifted the ban on the sale of weapons to the Greek Cypriot Administration in 2022 and subsequently moved the military cooperation forward and included the Greek Cypriot side in the National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program within the US Ministry of Defense.

“DOES NOT SERVE ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN INCREASING THE TENSION ON THE ISLAND AND THE REGION”

In the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the open military support of the Greek Cypriot Administration (GCA), which continues its increasingly provocative and aggressive attitudes day by day, by a country like the USA, makes the Cyprus issue more difficult and serves a purpose other than increasing the tension in the island and the region. stated that it did not.

“Despite all our reservations, the US continued its military support to the Greek Cypriot Administration by increasing it reveals that the US preferred tension and conflict instead of reconciliation and diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean.” In the statement, it was stated that the Greek Cypriot Administration, with the support it received, would not hold back from its activities to increase the tension in the island and the region and would increasingly continue.

In the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was emphasized that in the face of these developments, all necessary steps to ensure the security of the Turkish Cypriot people will continue to be taken together with the motherland Turkey, as always, and the necessary response will be shown.