Russian Embassy commemorates 60th anniversary of Cyprus-Russia diplomatic ties

Cyprus and Russia maintain traditionally friendly relations, a fact greatly facilitated by Russia’s commitment to a timely conclusion of a just and comprehensive Cyprus settlement, says the Russia Embassy in Cyprus on the occasion of the 60th anniversary since the establishment of diplomatic relations.
 
On August 18, 1960, the USSR and the Republic of Cyprus established diplomatic ties, the Embassy notes in a message on its Facebook account, adding that relations were established after the exchange of government telegraph messages between the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev and the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios.
 
The Embassy also says that Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Yermosin and Embassy staff arrived on the island already on December 27, 1960, to develop bilater

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