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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-03-14
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[01] Energy sector key for economic recovery and growth, President says
[02] PfP accession a strategic goal for Cyprus, says Defence Minister
[01] Energy sector key for economic recovery and growth, President says
The energy sector is key for achieving the government's goals of
economic recovery and growth as well as for the creation of new jobs,
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has stressed.
In an address, delivered by Minister of Communications and Works Tasos
Mitsopoulos, at an official dinner of the 2nd Cyprus Energy Symposium,
in Nicosia, President Anastasiades said that "indisputably, the recent
discovery of the Aphrodite gas field in Block 12 in the Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) of Cyprus, estimated to hold 7 trillion cubic feet
of natural gas, creates new perspectives with regard to putting Cyprus
on the European and global energy map".
The new situation, as it is being shaped today, he stressed, "renders the
energy sector as the key for the achievement of our goals for economic
resurgence and growth as well as for the creation of new jobs".
[02] PfP accession a strategic goal for Cyprus, says Defence Minister
Cyprus' accession to the Partnership for Peace (PfP) is a strategic goal,
Defence Minister Photis Photiou has said.
In statements he made to the press after his first meeting with the
Parliamentary Committee on Defence, Photiou noted that the road to
PfP accession will be long and difficult but accession can be achieved
through the right diplomatic moves.
The government will initially follow this route, he explained, adding that
when the time is right an application for accession will be submitted.
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