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Britain's Starmer, Cyprus vow to boost ties

Britain's Starmer, Cyprus vow to boost ties

NICOSIA - Britain and Cyprus pledged on Tuesday to boost ties during a visit by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in an endorsement of the pro-west tilt the Mediterranean island has taken since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.


A former British colony, Cyprus has worked hard to shake off a reputation as a haven for Russian businesses and light-touch regulation, and is aligned with the west over Russia and amid growing turmoil in the Middle East.


Starmer, on a multi-day visit to the Middle East, was in Cyprus on Tuesday, the first visit of a British prime minister to the former colony since Edward Heath in 1971.


After a short welcoming ceremony, Starmer told Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides he felt privileged to be there.


Christodoulides was received at the White House earlier this year in a first by a Cypriot president in almost three decades.


Britain has offered expertise for the island to create a sanctions unit, which was a focus of discussions. It still plays a role in Cypriot affairs as one of three guarantor powers of Cypriot independence, along with Turkey and Greece.


Starmer visited service personnel and families at RAF Akrotiri, a British military base on the southern coast.


Tuesday's visit drew criticism from breakaway North Cyprus, a statelet recognised only by Ankara, for ignoring the Turkish Cypriots as the other main party in the Cyprus conflict.


(Reporting by Michele Kambas; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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