Greek Cyprus to raise Türkiye's planned gas pipeline to Northern Cyprus with EU foreign ministers

Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said he would brief EU counterparts at the bloc's Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Türkiye's memorandum of understanding for an undersea gas pipeline to Turkish Cyprus, calling it a clear violation of international law and Cypriot sovereignty. He said Cyprus reported 659 violations of its airspace and exclusive economic zone to the United Nations in July and August alone. That same Tuesday, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman met Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides in the UN buffer zone to discuss UN-proposed confidence-building measures, six of seven of which Erhürman said have already been accepted.

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