Cypriot Foreign Minister Confirms Fear Hit British Base left Lebanon

Constantinos Kombos, the foreign minister of Cyprus, has told a British media that the fear produced in Iran that hit the base of the United Kingdom in Akrotiri a week earlier was started by Lebanon. “at present is the fact that we need to look towards the Lebanese front”, said the minister for The Guardian, who [...]
The “at present is the fact that we should look towards the Lebanese front”, said the minister for The Guardian, who said the comments confirmed the origin of fears for the first time.
We can't rule out anything from the widest direction in the northeast. We need to be very careful, we need to make sure that the country's systems cover all the possibility of the <x1 threat, he added.
Britain has sovereignty on two military bases in its former Colonel Akrotiri and Andkelia, as part of a treaty establishing Cyprus' independence in 1960, Telegrafi reports, broadcast Periscope.
Kombos was quoted as saying in the report that Cyprus has repeatedly been downplaying “” that British bases may be targeted “if things move in a specific regional direction”.
This is a constant concern, but the result of these conversations is clear about what happened Sunday evening”, he told The Guardian.
It was obvious, he said, not everything that could be done at the expectations level, that people who live and work on the base, Cypriots, they also have, and I'm sure the British government has done it, but, for now, I want to focus on how co-operation improves”. /Periscope












