Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides wants his country to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He spoke about this with the current U.S. President Joseph Biden at a meeting in Washington last month.
Kathimerini reported this with reference to its own sources.
According to the publication, Christodoulides presented Biden with a plan for the possible future accession of Cyprus to NATO the day before.
The publication emphasizes that this is a detailed, well-thought-out, long-term plan for the country's membership in the alliance, which has already allegedly been approved by Washington.
It also writes that the U.S. President's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called this plan a win-win. According to him, the potential that Cyprus' accession to NATO will create will be enormous.
The publication writes that after the meeting with Biden, the President of Cyprus presented the plan for membership in NATO to the Secretary General of the Alliance, Mark Rutte. This happened on the sidelines of the meeting of the European Political Community, which took place in early November in Budapest.
It is noted that several decades ago, Cyprus was an active participant in the so-called Non-Aligned Movement - an association of countries that adhered to neutrality and did not belong to any military alliances. The country left this movement in 2004, when it became a member of the European Union.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in early November of this year, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola stated the need to create a European security organization that would exist in parallel with NATO.
We recall that European NATO member states fear that Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election could lead to a rupture in transatlantic relations.
We also wrote that in early 2024, discussions began in Europe on the creation of a continental union in case the U.S. refuses to defend its European NATO allies after Trump's inauguration.
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