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[B25]

According to the CY Mail today, the US Ambassador to CY is quite happy for closer CY/NATO ties and for CY to join the PfP.

... and what the US wants in NATO, the US gets. So much for the alleged Turkish 'veto"...

..."THE UNITED States welcomes Cyprus’ commitment to strengthen ties with the transatlantic security organisation NATO, US ambassador to Nicosia John Koenig said yesterday.
He also called for a careful planning of the new government’s stated goal of joining NATO’s anteroom, the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme, to ensure a positive effect on EU-NATO relations..."

Britain will only have one significant overseas base soon (after it quits Germany for good) - in Cyprus. With Cyprus in Nato I wonder how long it would be before UK tries to negotiate the handing over of the Cyprus bases to the US to save some more cash. I remember the Americans kicked up a big fuss when Denis Healy tried to give up Cyprus bases in the 1960s. What price would the ROC ask to agree to such a handover?

You have to get our permission.

Dream on, we dont need you for anything. The RoC is the only officially recognised government of cyprus and it can do as it pleases.

[bill cobbett]

According to the CY Mail today, the US Ambassador to CY is quite happy for closer CY/NATO ties and for CY to join the PfP.

... and what the US wants in NATO, the US gets. So much for the alleged Turkish 'veto"...

..."THE UNITED States welcomes Cyprus’ commitment to strengthen ties with the transatlantic security organisation NATO, US ambassador to Nicosia John Koenig said yesterday.
He also called for a careful planning of the new government’s stated goal of joining NATO’s anteroom, the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme, to ensure a positive effect on EU-NATO relations..."

Britain will only have one significant overseas base soon (after it quits Germany for good) - in Cyprus. With Cyprus in Nato I wonder how long it would be before UK tries to negotiate the handing over of the Cyprus bases to the US to save some more cash. I remember the Americans kicked up a big fuss when Denis Healy tried to give up Cyprus bases in the 1960s. What price would the ROC ask to agree to such a handover?

You have to get our permission.

Dream on, we dont need you for anything. The RoC is the only officially recognised government of cyprus and it can do as it pleases.

Yes quite, in much the same ways as the Republic drilled successfully for gas, marked out CY's EEZ and joined the EU... all with no permission outside the Republic.

[Lordo]

lets not count our chickens before they are hatched boys.

[bill cobbett]

lets not count our chickens before they are hatched boys.

Pollocks!... if the USA are on-side then CY will join the PfP, no ifs or buts ... Live with it...!!!

[boomerang]

lets not count our chickens before they are hatched boys.

Pollocks!... if the USA are on-side then CY will join the PfP, no ifs or buts ... Live with it...!!!

someone kindly inform the esteemed member of blabbermouth the chickens already hatched...

Israel: A De Facto Member of NATO

http://thenelsondaily.com/news/israel-de-facto-member-nato-23647

[Lordo]

de fucto or not. why is israel not a full member you upside down wallywallaby.

this is a country which cannot defeat children throwing stones. what a war machine.

i can live with it but when the times comes your kind will die with it.

[boulio]

Its a country that can make ankara a parking lot.

[repulsewarrior]

...partnership for peace, lol!

[bill cobbett]

de fucto or not. why is israel not a full member you upside down wallywallaby.

this is a country which cannot defeat children throwing stones. what a war machine.

i can live with it but when the times comes your kind will die with it.

Never mind Israel you meandering flipstick...

... If the Good Old USA wants little CY in the Partnership for Peace, then Turkiye will bend over and say thank you kindly very much sir, shall we lick Uncle Sam's Bum clean whilst we're down here...???

... so face up to the Realities on the Ground and Up With It Put.

[boomerang]

de fucto or not. why is israel not a full member you upside down wallywallaby.

this is a country which cannot defeat children throwing stones. what a war machine.

i can live with it but when the times comes your kind will die with it.

yes quite true a "de-facto" partner carrying way, way more punching weight than a full raving looney tunes member...as a turk you should never forget it....