Nicosia is intensifying its efforts to exert stress on Lebanon, via the European Union, to include the waves of Syrian migrants leaving its shores and arriving in Cyprus.
Since Sunday, 14 boats have arrived in Cyprus, carrying 761 unlawful immigrants.
The assertion of the President of the Republic that Cyprus is in a state of significant disaster in relation to immigration is indicative.
Within the context of the efforts to cease the migration flows from the ocean, President Christodoulidis had frequent phone contacts with the president of the European Fee and the Prime Minister of Lebanon, whereas the Minister of the Inside raised the matter with the competent European Commissioner.
President Christodoulidis will focus on the issue stay with Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, in Athens, on the sidelines of the New Democracy convention, on Sunday.
Within the first three months of the yr, 42 boats arrived in Cyprus, carrying 2,469 irregular migrants.
Based on data from RIK's correspondent in Larnaca, there is a rise within the variety of people who find themselves on the coastal shores of Lebanon and want to come to Cyprus, particularly on this interval when the climate circumstances are good.
There are already 30,000 Syrians registered in Cyprus.
Supply: Radio RIK
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