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Nikos Christodoulides

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  1. “And we're trying to show it in action. Even before the world, that's why I told you before. And that was our message to the region, that if we were together in those low politics issues, and all of us, we see the benefit out of this cooperation, it will be much more easier to discuss also difficult political issues. And there are certain issues that need to be solved before in order to reach that stage. I'll give you an example. I'm sure both of you you know very well the Ambraham Accords. Great success in the region. Israel, UAE, the United States. It didn't last. Why? Because the Palestinian issue is there and it will continue to poison. I'm talking about our region, everything that can be positively developed in this region. Even now with Iran and Israel, those non-state actors that I mentioned before”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “What we're trying to do as a small EU member state, but at the same time part of the region, is to send the message to everybody that these differences, the problems that we have, cannot be solved through military means.”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “No, not at all, especially, I mean, both of them, they should be there for a number of reasons that we can discuss later, especially with the UK, because for Cyprus there is this special link between the UK. But what I'm trying to say is that we have a new international ostricher. What we are seeing today, it's very important, the transition from the old international order to the new one to be smooth. Otherwise, we're going to have all those non-state actors, Malayan actors, that will play the leading role.”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “The UN, it was a product of following World War II. So today we have a new international order. And of course we need the UN, but we need also to touch on difficult political issues with regard to the UN in order the UN to continue to have a role. For example, Security Council, permanent members, the five permanent members that we have today represent today's reality? Is it possible in India, for example, not to be part of as a permanent member of the UN Security Council? Where is the European Union? Where is Brazil?”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Let's put aside the difficult political issues. Let's put aside the security issues, the security differences that all of us will have. And let's start discussing on so-called, because I don't consider them, the so-called low politics issue, and try to work together, like climate. Is it possible for Cyprus to face climate change without working with Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and the countries of the region? No. And Turkey, including Turkey. So let's start discussing on a positive agenda on those issues that we don't have an alternative than to work together. And we did it.”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “mediate, to play a role, to ask all of them to sit around the same table and start discussing. It wasn't easy at the beginning, but we said what is the motto, agreeing, disagreeing, what is the”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Newera started immediately after. But now we're living in a world with a lot of strong powers, middle powers in other countries, including Cyprus, small countries. And the biggest challenge that we are facing both today in the Middle East but also in Ukraine is the fact that if we don't solve Problems through diplomatic means. Biggest concern, and especially in this region, and we witness this also in the past, is the fact that a vacuum will be created and we will see the development of non-state actors, of Malayan actors that will try to play a leading role in our neighborhood. And this is very, very dangerous. And that is why from the very beginning another one in any way to exaggerate the role that Cyprus can play. But as I told you, we have exaggerations with all neighboring countries, and we're trying”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Of them except Turkey, and if it is possible, we want to have also Turkey. We cannot change geography, I cannot move Cyprus being a neighbor of Switzerland, and I don't want, I mean, whether conditions are not so advanced to be there. But I really believe that we are living in a new international order. We had the collapse of Cold War.”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Let me welcome you to Nicosia, the last divided capital of the world. Let me welcome you to the presidential palace, which used to be the house of the British governor. Until 1960. Let me welcome you in a region that is mainly known for its problems and its challenges. Being in the region, I don't fully agree with this narrative because I really believe that this region has unique potential if we work together. This is something that we are trying to do through our foreign policy and the fact that we have excellent relations with all of our neighbors.”

    2025-06-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 141. The President of Cyprus: Iran, Israel, and the Cyprus Issue (Nikos Christodoulides) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source